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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.

ially 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 .

Old workings. See Goaf. Raymond.

Pertaining to the ship Argo.

A male goat. [Colloq.]

A species of wild goat (Capra Nubiana) found in the mountains of Abyssinia, Upper Egypt, and Arabia; -- called also beden, and jaela.

The jharal.