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He goeth about to dissuade the king from his suprem- 
acy. Latimer, 5th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. 
They went about to slay him. Acts a. 29. 
(b) (About, adv.] Xaitt., to tack, (c) (About, prep.] To en- 
gage in ; undertake ; set to work at : as, to go about an 
enterprise. 
All men be knowen by the workes they vse to go about. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 95. 
To go about one's business, to pursue one's occupa- 
tion ; attend to one's own affairs ; in the imperative, go 
away ; be off. 
Indeed 'tis not improbable that these fellows were Fish- 
ermen, and going about their business. 
Dampier, Voyages, II. 1. 89. 
Let him have half-a-crown from me, said I, and desire 
him to go about his business. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 109. 
To go abroad, (a) To go away from home ; leave one's 
house. , 
Horatio's servant . . . begg'd to go abroad ; . . . 
"'Tis but a step, sir, just at the street's end." 
Cowper, To Joseph Hill. 
(b) Specifically, to go to a foreign country. To go after, 
to seek ; follow ; take pleasure in. 
When Solomon went after other gods, he was punished 
by the revolt of the people that were subject to him. 
1'ococke, Description of the East, II. i. 118. 
To go against, (a) To invade ; march to attack, (b) To 
be repugnant to : as, it goes against my principles. 
I determined to quit a business which had always gone 
rather against my conscience. Sheridan, The Critic, i. 2. 
To go against the grain, to be opposed to one's Incli- 
nations or feelings ; come hard. 
Though it went much against the grain, yet at last he so 
far prevailed by fair Words, that they were contented to 
go on with their Seal-killing, till they had filled all their 
Cask. Dampier, Voyages, II. ii. 27. 
To go ahead, (a) To go in advance. (6) To proceed ; go 
forward ; go on and do the thing in hand. [Colloq.] 
The specific instructions to conquer and hold California 
were issued to Commodore Sloat, by Mr. Bancroft, on the 
12th of July, 1846. Previous to this, however, he had been 
officially notified that war existed, and briefly instructed 
to go ahead. New York Com. Advertiser. 
To go aside, (a) To err ; deviate from the right way ; take 
the wrong direction. 
The bitter arrow went aside . . . 
And pierced thy heart, my love, my bride. 
Tennyson, Oriana. 
(b) To withdraw ; retire. To go at, to assail ; attack with 
energy. To go awry. See awry. To go back on 
or upon, to retreat from ; abandon ; prove faithless to. 
[Colloq.] 
The clergyman assured him ... if he married, it must 
be for better and worse ; that he could not go back upon the 
step. E. B. Sammy, Scottish Life and Character, p. 218. 
Are these Dobbs' Ferry villagers 
A going back on Dobbs ! 
T would n't be more anom'lous 
If Rome went back on Rom'lus ! 
Dobbs, His Ferry, Putnam's Mag., Jan., 1868. 
To go besidet. See beside. To go between, to inter- 
pose in the affairs of ; mediate between. 
I did i/o between them, as I said ; but more than that, 
he loved her for, indeed, he was mad for her. 
Shak., All's Well, v. 3. 
To go beyond, to exceed ; surpass ; excel. See beyond. 
Beasts, though otherwise behind men, may notwith- 
standing in actions of sense and fancy go beyond them. 
Booker, Eccles. Polity, i. 6. 
The Ragusan examples [of architecture] go beyond any- 
thing that we know of elsewhere. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 244. 
To go by. (a) [By, adv.] To pass unnoticed or disre- 
garded: as, to let an insult go by. (b) [By, prep.] (1) To 
pass near and beyond. (2t) To come by ; get. 
In argument with men a woman ever 
Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause. 
Milton, 8. A., 1. 904. 
To go or go home by beggar's bush. See beggar. To 
go by the board. See board. To go currentt. See 
current!, a. To go daft See daftl.To go down, (a) 
To droop, descend^ or sink in any manner. 
Supreme he sits ; before the awful frown 
That bends his brows the boldest eye goes dovm. 
0. W. Holmes, The School-Boy. 
The storm was increasing, and it became evident that it 
was better to take the hazard of beaching the boat than 
to 0o down in a hundred fathoms of water. 
S. L. Clemens, Roughing it, xxiii. 
(6)Todecline;falloff; fail: as, he lost his self-control and 
went dovm rapidly, (c) To find acceptance ; be accepted 
or approved : as, that doctrine will not go down. [Colloq. ] 
Nothing goes down with her that is quaint, irregular, or 
out of the road of common sympathy. 
Lamb, Mackery End. 
To go eye put See eye.i. To go far, to last or hold out 
long: as, his money did not go far; our provisions will 
not go far. To go for. (a) To enter into the condition 
or employment of ; engage as : as, to go for a soldier. (6) 
To be taken or regarded as ; pass for : as, it qoes for less 
than it is worth, (c) To be in favor of (a person or thing). 
(d) To proceed to attack ; assail with blows or words ; bring 
to book. [Slang, U. S.] 
And he rose with a sigh, 
And said, "Can this be? 
We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor ! " 
And he went. for that heathen Chinee. 
Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James. 
To go for nothing', to have no value, meaning, or efficacy ; 
come to naught ; be unavailing : as, all his efforts went 
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for nothing. TO go for one's self, to act or work on 
one's own account ; be one's own master. To go forth. 
(a) To go away or depart. 
But now the whole Round Table is dissolved, . . . 
And I, the last, go forth companionlcss. 
Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur. 
(b) To be announced or published : as, the decree has gone 
forth. To go forward, (o) To advance; march on; 
make headway. 
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. 
Ex. xiv. 16. 
Per me stetit, I was in the fault that it went not forward. 
Terence in English (1614). 
(6) To be in course ; be under way. 
" What's going forward?" "Ball, sir, "said the waiter. 
"Assembly enV" "No, sir, not assembly, sir; ball for 
the benefit of a charity." Dickens, Pickwick, ii. 
To go free, (a) To be set at liberty, as a prisoner or a host- 
age. (6) Naut. Seefree. To go hard, (a) To result in 
hardship, danger, or misfortune : followed by with (often 
with ill instead of hard). 
If law, authority, and power deny not, 
It will go hard with poor Antonio. 
Shak., M. of V., ill. 2. 
(b) To be because of great difficulty or of simple impossi- 
bility : followed by but or if with a clause. 
Hap what may hap, I'll roundly go about her : 
It shall 170 hard if Cambio go without her. 
Shak., T. of the S., iv. 4. 
It shall go hard but I will see your death. 
Marlowe, Jew of Malta, 11. 2. 
To go In, to take an active part ; proceed to action. [Col- 
loq.] To go in and out, to go and come freely ; have 
the freedom of a place ; be at liberty. 
By me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall 
go in and out, and shall find pasture. John x. 9. 
To go in for, to be in favor of ; make the object of ac- 
quirement or attainment. [Colloq.] 
Go in for money money's the article. 
Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, iii. 3. 
The gentlemen went in for big bows to their ties, cut- 
away coats, and short sticks. 
Fortnightly Ren., N. S., XL. 63. 
To go in untot. Scrip., to have sexual commerce with. 
To go near, to become liable or likely. 
Masters, it is proved already that you are little better 
than false knaves ; and it will go near to be thought so 
shortly. Shak., Much Ado, iv. 2. 
To go Off. (a) To take one's departure. (6) To die. 
Were I of Cresar's religion, I should be of his desires, 
and wish rather to go off at one blow than to be sawed in 
pieces by the grating torture of a disease. 
Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 44. 
(c) To explode or be discharged with noise, as firearms. 
It is, as I may say, a designing and malicious-looking let- 
ter and I warrant smells of gunpowder like a soldier's 
pouch ! Oons ! I wouldn't swear it mayn't go of! 
Sheridan, The Rivals, iv. 1. 
(d) To be disposed of : as, the goods went off rapidly. 
Nothing in my way goes of in summer, except very light 
goods indeed. Ooldsmith, Citizen of the World, Ii. 
(e) To pass off or take place : as, everything went off well. 
The fervours of a pious mind will naturally contract such 
an earnestness and attention towards a better being, as 
will make the ordinary passages of life go off with a be- 
coming indifference. Steele, Tatler, No. 211. 
(/) To deteriorate in condition ; be on the wane. 
Oh ! don't look at me, please ; . . . I know as well as if 
you had told me that you think me dreadfully gone. off. 
Mrs. Oliphant, Miss Marjoribanks, xli. 
To go off at half cock. See cocti. TO go on. (a) To 
advance ; proceed ; continue ; be in progress. 
It is natural to inquire into our present condition ; how 
long we shall be able to go on at this rate. 
Swift, Conduct of the Allies. 
What's going on here? So you have been quarrelling 
too, I warrant. Sheridan, The Rivals, v. 3. 
The work of building over the site must have gone on 
from that day to this. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 147. 
(b) To be put on, as a garment : as, the coat will not go 
on. (c) To behave ; carry on. See goings-on, under going, 
n. [Colloq.] 
Sad comfort whenever he returns, to hear how your bro- 
ther has gone on .' Sheridan, School for Scandal, i. 1. 
To go on a bat. See bati. To go on all fours. See 
four, n. To go on the account i. See account. To 
go On the stage, to adopt the theatrical profession ; ap- 
pear as a public actor. To go out (a) To go forth ; go 
from home. 
When she went out to tailorin', she was allers bespoke 
six months ahead. H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 56. 
There were thousands of poor girls eating out their 
hearts because they had to go out as governesses. 
W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 263. 
(b) To depart or retire : with of: as, to go out of office, (c) 
To become extinct, as a candle or a fire ; expire. 
The fire here went out about an age agone. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 194. 
The ancient Sage, who did so long maintain 
That Bodies die, but Souls return again, 
With all the Births and Deaths he had in Store, 
Went out Pythagoras, and came no more. 
Prior, Ode to George Villiers. 
(d) To go into society: as, they do not go out this season, 
being in mourning, (e) To be inwardly moved (toward a 
person), in love or sympathy. 
go 
Maggie's heart u-ent otit towards this woman whom she 
had never liked. George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, ii. 7. 
(/) To fight a duel; also, to take the field for war: as, he 
went out in the Crimean campaign. To go over, (a) 
[Over, adv. | To change sides ; pass from one party, doc- 
trine, etc. , to another. 
They |the Gallas] have never made a settlement on the 
Abyssinian side of the Nile, except such tribes of them 
as, from wars among themselves, have gone over to the 
king of Abyssinia and obtained lands on the banks of that 
river. Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 218. 
(6) [Over, prep.] (1) To read; peruse; rehearse. 
Whisk. I wish, sir, you would practise this without me 
I can't stay dying here all night. 
Puff. Very well ; we'll go over it by and by. 
Sheridan, The Critic, ill 1. 
(2) To examine ; review ; verify : as, to go over an account. 
If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that, 
excepting a few particulars, they enjoin the same things, 
only they have made our duty more clear and certain. 
Tillotson. 
(3) To pass from one side to the other of, as a river. To 
go over the range, to die. [Slang, western U. S.] 
To go over the range is to die, as any reader of Bret Harte's 
frontier stories knows ; but once it was limited to cattle. 
L. Swinburne, Bucolic Dialect of the Plains. 
To go over to the majority. See majority. To go 
round, to supply a share or portion for every one : as, 
there was not cake enough to go round. To go through. 
(a) To complete ; accomplish ; perform thoroughly : as, 
to go through an undertaking, (b) To pass through or ex- 
haust every part of ; search or use to the full extent of : 
as, to go through one's pockets or a room in looking for 
something ; to go through (exhaust) a fortune, (c) To sub- 
ject to a thorough search for valuables : said of persons : 
as, they went through him and made a good haul. [Thieves' 
slang. | (d) To suffer ; undergo ; sustain to the end : as, to 
go through a long sickness. 
I suppose never man went through such a series of ca- 
lamities in the same space of time. 
Sheridan, The Critic, i. 2. 
(e) To carry an undertaking to completion. 
You chang'd 
Your purposes ; why did you not go through, 
And murder him? Shirley, The Traitor, iv. 1. 
To go through the mill, to pass through a more or less 
severe or tedious course of discipline or training ; have 
experience. [Colloq.] 
Certain persons who have gone through the mill of what 
is known as our "higher education." 
Contemporary Rev., LI. 10. 
To go through With, to carry to completion ; effectually 
discharge. 
He much feared the Earl of Antrim had not steadiness 
of mind enough to go through with such an undertaking. 
Clarendon, Great Rebellion. 
To go to extremes. See extreme, n. To go together 
by the ears. See eari.To go to gladet, to go to 
grass, to go to the basket*, to go to the devil, to 
go to the ground, etc. See the nouns. To go too far, 
to exceed the bounds of reason, prudence, or propriety. 
These contents of the trunk were so unexpected, that 
Cabil the Vizir thought he had gone too far, and called 
my servant in a violent hurry, upbraiding him for not 
telling who I was. Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 273. 
To go to pieces, (a) To break up entirely, as a wrecked 
vessel, (b) To be dismembered or disrupted. 
The most significant point in the history of the four 
years 1770-73 is the manner in which the ordinary colonial 
government continued to go to pieces. 
Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 739. 
(c) To break down in health ; have the nervous system 
shattered. To go under. (a) {Under, adv.] To be sub- 
merged or overwhelmed; be ruined; also, to die. [U. S.] 
(b) [Under, prep.] To be talked of or known, as by a title 
or character : as, to go under the name of reformers. 
He [a Maronite sheik] went under the name of a prince 
of mount Llbanon; for those who have travelled under 
that character are the sons of those sheiks who rent the 
parishes of the prince of the Druses. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 96. 
To go up. (a) Theat. See to come down (d), under come, 
(b) To go to ruin financially. [Colloq.] To go upon, to 
proceed according to, in argument or action, as a supposi- 
tion or a principle. 
This supposition I have gone upon through those papers. 
Addison. 
To go well, to be or result in a flourishing or fortunate 
condition: used absolutely or with with: as, all is going 
well with him. 
That it may go well with thee, and with thy children 
after thee. Deut. iv. 40. 
To go with, (a) To accompany ; belong to. 
Along with the attitude of abject submission assumed 
by the Batpka.we saw that there 170 rhythmic blows of the 
hands against the sides. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 386. 
(b) To side or take part with. 
We cannot 170 with him in defending the MS. "tibi" 
... as an ethical dative. Athenceum, No. 3067, p. 169. 
(c) To agree or harmonize with. 
The innocence which would go extremely well with a 
sash and tucker is a little out of keeping with the rouge 
and pearl necklace. Dickens, Bleak House, xl. 
That feelings of soberness or gloom go with black, of 
excitement with red, . . . would probably be admitted 
by most persons. G. T. Ladd, Physiol. Psychology, p. 616. 
To go without saying, to be taken for granted ; be un- 
derstood without explanation or without mention. (Com- 
pare the French oiler sans dire.] 
