Godling (n.) A diminutive god.
Godly (n.) Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws; obedient to the commands of God from love for, and reverence of, his character; conformed to God's law; devout; righteous; as, a godly life.
Godly (adv.) Piously; devoutly; righteously.
Godlyhead (n.) Goodness.
Godmother (n.) A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather
Godown (n.) A warehouse.
Godroon (n.) An ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded molding.
Godsend (n.) Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.
Godship (n.) The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess.
Godsib (n.) A gossip.
Godson (n.) A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.
Godspeed (n.) Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you."
Godward (adv.) Toward God.
Godwit (n.) One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringidae. The European black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (L. fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (L. haemastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.
Goel (a.) Yellow.
Goeland (n.) A white tropical tern (Cygis candida).
Goemin (n.) A complex mixture of several substances extracted from Irish moss.
Goen () p. p. of Go.
Goer (n.) One who, or that which, goes; a runner or walker
Goer (n.) A foot.
Goer (n.) A horse, considered in reference to his gait; as, a good goer; a safe goer.
Goety (n.) Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft.
Goff (n.) A silly clown.
Goff (n.) A game. See Golf.
Goffered (imp. & p. p.) of Goffer
Goffering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Goffer
Goffer (v. t.) To plait, flute, or crimp. See Gauffer.
Gog (n.) Haste; ardent desire to go.
Goggled (imp. & p. p.) of Goggle
Goggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Goggle
Goggle (v. i.) To roll the eyes; to stare.
Goggle (a.) Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes.
Goggle (v. i.) A strained or affected rolling of the eye.
Goggle (v. i.) A kind of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes, in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc.
Goggle (v. i.) Colored glasses for relief from intense light.
Goggle (v. i.) A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting.
Goggle (v. i.) Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through.
Goggled (a.) Prominent; staring, as the eye.
Goggle-eye (n.) One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrarchidae, esp. Chaenobryttus antistius, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes.
Goggle-eye (n.) The goggler.
Goggle-eyed (a.) Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes.
Goggler (n.) A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra.
Goglet (n.) See Gurglet.
Going (n.) The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad.
Going (n.) Departure.
Going (n.) Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing.
Going (n.) Course of life; behavior; doings; ways.
Goiter (n.) Alt. of Goitre
Goitre (n.) An enlargement of the thyroid gland, on the anterior part of the neck; bronchocele. It is frequently associated with cretinism, and is most common in mountainous regions, especially in certain parts of Switzerland.
Goitered (a.) Alt. of Goitred
Goitred (a.) Affected with goiter.
Goitrous (a.) Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele.
Gold (n.) Alt. of Goolde
Golde (n.) Alt. of Goolde
Goolde (n.) An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.
Gold (v. t.) A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7.
Gold (v. t.) Money; riches; wealth.
Gold (v. t.) A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold.
Gold (v. t.) Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold.
Gold-beaten (a.) Gilded.
Gold-beating (n.) The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer.
Gold-bound (a.) Encompassed with gold.
Goldcrest (n.) The European golden-crested kinglet (Regulus cristatus, or R. regulus); -- called also golden-crested wren, and golden wren. The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested kinglet. See Kinglet.
Goldcup (n.) The cuckoobud.
Golden (a.) Made of gold; consisting of gold.
Golden (a.) Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain.
Golden (a.) Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions.
Golden-eye (n.) A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common.
Goden ly (adv.) In golden terms or a golden manner; splendidly; delightfully.
Golden-rod (n.) A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago.
Goldfinch (n.) A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William.
Goldfinch (n.) The yellow-hammer.
Goldfinch (n.) A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird.
Goldfinny (n.) One of two or more species of European labroid fishes (Crenilabrus melops, and Ctenolabrus rupestris); -- called also goldsinny, and goldney.
Goldfish (n.) A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); -- so named from its color. It is native of China, and is said to have been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament, in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope.
Goldfish (n.) A California marine fish of an orange or red color; the garibaldi.
Gold-hammer (n.) The yellow-hammer.
Goldie (n.) The European goldfinch.
Goldie (n.) The yellow-hammer.
Goldilocks (n.) Same as Goldylocks.
Goldin (n.) Alt. of Golding
Golding (n.) A conspicuous yellow flower, commonly the corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum).
Goldless (a.) Destitute of gold.
Goldney (n.) See Gilthead.
Goldseed (n.) Dog's-tail grass.
Goldsinny (n.) See Goldfinny.
Goldsmith (n.) An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments, etc., of gold.
Goldsmith (n.) A banker.
Goldtit (n.) See Verdin.
Goldylocks (n.) A plant of several species of the genus Chrysocoma; -- so called from the tufts of yellow flowers which terminate the stems; also, the Ranunculus auricomus, a kind of buttercup.
Golet (n.) The gullet.
Golet (n.) A California trout. See Malma.
Golf (n.) A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.
Golfer (n.) One who plays golf.
Golgotha (n.) Calvary. See the Note under Calvary.
Goliard (n.) A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.
Goliardery (n.) The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards.
Goliath beetle () Any species of Goliathus, a genus of very large and handsome African beetles.
Goll (n.) A hand, paw, or claw.
Goloe-shoe (n.) A galoche.