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Gone. Chaucer.

An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.

e; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to give a proposal the go-by. Some songs to which we have given the go-by. Prof. Wilson.

A weight which is dropped into a bore, as of an oil well, to explode a cartridge previously lowered.

nts against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out. [Written also gowt.]

A species of antelope (Procapra picticauda), inhabiting Thibet.

A bitter powder (also called araroba) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (Andira araroba) and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained.

trument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates. The daily goad urging him to the daily toil. Macaulay.

eral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob . To work the goaf or gob, to remove the pillars of mineral matter previously left to support the roof, and replace them with props. Ure.

e place at which a race or a journey is to end. Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels. Milton.

Same as lst Gore.

Patched; mean. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

w-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.

chin or lower lip which is allowed to grow, and trimmed so as to resemble the beard of a goat.

A fish of the genus Upeneus, inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico. It is allied to the surmullet.

One who tends goats. Spenser.

Characteristic of a goat; goatlike. Give your chaste body up to the embraces Of goatish lust. Massinger. -- Goat"ish*ly, adv. -- Goat"ish*ness, n.

Like a goat; goatish.

The skin of a goat, or leather made from it. -- a.

opean species (Caprimulgus Europæus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk .