go 
Put it out of yotfr mind and let us be very happy this 
evening. And every following evening. That goes with- 
out saying. The Century, XXXVII. 270. 
To go wrong, (a) To take a wrong way ; go astray ; de- 
viate from prudence or virtue. 
They are all noblemen who have gone wrong. 
W. A'. Gilbert, Pirates of Penzance. 
(6) To run or proceed with friction or trouble; not to run 
smoothly. To let go. See def. 13. 
[In the following phrases the verb is not really transitive 
in sense ; what follows it is adverbial in all cases. ] 
To dot and go one. See iioi. TO go a journey, to 
engage in a journey ; travel. 
He himself went a d&y'sjouriu'y Into the wilderness. 
1 Ki. xlx. 4. 
To go an errand, to go on an errand ; take a message. 
To go bail. See bail-. To go halves or shares, to share 
anything in two equal parts ; bear or enjoy a part ; partici- 
pate in, as an enterprise. 
There was a hunting match agreed upon betwixt a lion, 
an ass, and a fox, and they were to go equal shares in the 
booty. Sir It. L' Estrange. 
To go one's own gate, to have one's own way. See yale*. 
A. woman should obey her husband, and not go her own 
gait. Mrs. Gas/cell, Sylvia's Lovers, xxxlii. 
To go one's way. (a) To pass on in one's course ; depart ; 
move on. 
And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath 
made thee whole. Mark x. 52. 
He ... caught 
His bundle, waved his hand, and weiit his way. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
(b) To take or have one's own way. 
So your ways now, and make a costly feast at your own 
charge for guests so dainty mouthed, so divers in taste, 
and besides that, of so unkind and unthankful nature. 
Sir T. ilore, Utopia, Ded. to Peter Giles, p. 15. 
To go security, to make one's self responsible ; give bond. 
It was but last week he went security for a fellow whose 
face he scarce knew. Goldsmith, Good-natured Man, i. 
To go the way of nature. See nature. fa go the 
whole figure, to go the whole hog, to go to the ut- 
most extent to gain a point or attain an object. [Slang. ] 
Why not, therefore, 170 the whole hog, and reject the 
total voyage, when thus in his view partially discredited ? 
De Quincey, Herodotus. 
II. trans. 1. To put up with ; tolerate ; con- 
sent to: as, I can't go his preaching. [Colloq.] 
2. To contribute, wager, or risk in any why: 
as, I will go you a guinea on the event; how 
much will you go to help us? [Colloq.] TO go 
it, to act in a spirited, energetic, or dashing manner : only 
colloquial, and often employed in the imperative aa an 
encouragement: as, "go it while you're young." [Colloq.] 
Perhaps you'd like to spend a couple of shillings, or so, 
in abottle of currant wine? . . . I say, young Copperfleld, 
you're going it .' Dickens, David Copperfleld, vi. 
To go it alone, to do anything without assistance ; take 
the responsibility upon one's self. [Colloq.] To go it 
blind, to proceed without regard to consequences; act in 
a heedless or headlong manner. [Colloq.] 
At the outset of the war I would not go it blind, and 
rush headlong into a war unprepared and with utter ig- 
norance of its extent and purpose. 
Gen. W. T. Sherman, Memoirs, I. 342. 
To go (a person) one better, to accept a bet and offer to 
increase it by a unit in kind ; hence, to outrank or excel 
to some extent in quality or fitness of action. [Colloq.] 
go (go), n. ; pi. goes (goz). [< go, v.] 1. A do- 
ing; act; affair; piece of business. [Colloq.] 
This is a pretty 170, is this here ! an uncommon pretty 
go ! Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Ivif. 
I see a man with his eye pushed out; that was a rum 
go as ever I saw. George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, vii. 
2. Fashion or mode : as, capes are all the qo. 
[Colloq.] 
Now seldom, I ween, is such costume seen, 
Except at a stage-play or masquerade ; 
But who doth not know it was rather the go 
With Pilgrims and Saints in the second Crusade ? 
Barhain, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 251. 
Docking was quite the go for manes as well as tails at 
that time. Dickens. 
3. Energy; activity; stamina; spirit; anima- 
tion: as, there is plenty of go in him yet. 
[Colloq.] 
He [Lord Derby] is his father with all the go taken out 
of him, and a good deal of solid stuff put into him. 
Higginson, English Statesmen, p. 219. 
4. In cribbage, a situation where the next play- 
er cannot throw another card without causing 
the sum of spots on that and on the cards al- 
ready played to amount to more than 31. 5. 
Turn; chance. [Colloq.] 
" My 170 curse you, my 170 ; " said Johnnie, as Bill lifted 
the shell of spirits to his lips. " You've had seven goes 
and I've only had six." 
H. R. Haggard, Mr. Meeson's Will, x. 
6. A success; a fortunate stroke or piece of 
business. [Colloq.] 
There was one man among them who possessed what 
has often proved to be of more importance than capital 
courage, vim, pertinacity, and grim determination to make 
the venture a go. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 689. 
2558 
The third act is over and it is tremendous ; if the other 
two acts go in the same way it is an immense 170. 
Lester Wallack, Memories. 
7. A dram; a drink: as, aj/o of gin. [Colloq.] 
,So they went on talking politics, pulfing cigars and sip- 
ping whiskey-and-water, until the goes, most appropri- 
ately so called, were both gone. 
Dickens, Sketches, Making a Night of It. 
I have tickled the Captain too : he must have pledged 
his half-pay to keep open house for you, and now he must 
live on plates of beef and goes of gin for the next seven 
years. nineteenth Century, XIX. 254. 
Great go, an examination for degrees. [Cambridge Uni- 
versity, Eng. ] 
I never felt so thoroughly sick of ever)' thing like a 
Mathematical book aa just before the Great Go, when my 
knowledge of Mathematics was greater than it ever was 
before or has ever been since. 
C. A. Briated, English University, p. 266. 
Little go, a previous or preliminary examination. [Cam- 
bridge University, Eng.J 
The . . . Examination commonly called the Little Go 
(at Oxford the Smalls), being the former of the only two 
examinations required by the University for the B. A. de- 
gree. It is held near the end of the Lent (second) Term. 
C. A. Bristed, English University, p. 121. 
No go, of no use ; not to be done. [Colloq.] 
Just examine my bumps, and you'll see it's no go. 
Lowell, At Commencement Dinner, 1866. 
got. An obsolete form of gone, past participle 
of go. Chaucer. 
goa (go'a), n. [Native name t] 1. A name of 
a Tibetan antelope, Procapra picticauda. G-ray. 
Also called ragoa. 2. A name of the marsh- 
crocodile. 
Goa ball (go'a bal). [Supposed to have been 
devised by the Portuguese Jesuits at Goa in the 
17th century. ] 1 . A compound of drugs formed 
into a ball or an egg-shaped mass, and used as a 
remedy or preventive for fever, by scraping a 
little powder from the ball and dissolving it in 
water. These balls seem to be compounded 
of powerful drugs, and are commonly scented 
with musk. Also called Goa stone. 2. A hol- 
low sphere of metal, often ornamented and of 
valuable material, made to contain a Goa ball 
(in sense 1). 
Goa beans. See beanl. 
goad 1 (god), n. [< ME. godc, god, earlier gad 
(with long vowel), < AS. gad (not *gador *g6du), 
a goad (also in comp. gdd-isen, a goad, lit. ' goad- 
iron') ; the same word as E.gacfi, < ME. gadde, 
gad (with short vowel), < Icel. gaddr = Sw. 
gadd, a goad, sting, = ODan. gad, a gad, goad, 
gadde, a gadfly. The AS. and Scand. forms 
are respectively contracted and assimilated 
forms of an orig. "gazd, appearing (with rhota- 
.cism) in the AS. gierd, gyrd, ME. gerd, gerd, 
yerd, E. yard' 1 , a rod, and in Goth, gazds, a goad, 
prick, sting (Gr. icevrpov: see center 1 ), = L. has- 
ta, a spear (> E. hastate, haslet, etc.). See gad, 
ged, yard 1 .] 1. A stick, rod, or staff with a 
pointed end, used for driving cattle; hence, 
anything that urges or stimulates. 
For I do iudge those same goads and prickes wherewith 
their consciences are prikt and wounded to be a greuous 
fealing of that same iudgment. Calvin, Four Sermons, i. 
Else you again beneath my Yoke shall bow, 
Feel the sharp Goad, and draw the servile Plow. 
Prior, Cupid turned Ploughman. 
The spur of this period consisted of a single goad. 
J. Hewitt, Ancient Armour, I. 81. 
The splendid cathedral of Pisa, not far off, was a goad 
to the pride and vanity of the Slenese. 
C. E. Norton, Church-building in Middle Ages, p. 92. 
2. A decoy at an auction ; a Peter Funk. 
[Slang. ] 3f. [Cf . yard, rod, perch, as measures 
of length.] A little-used English measure of 
length. In Dorsetshire the goad of land was 15 feet 1 
inch. A statute of James I. speaks of goods at 15 pence 
the yard or 20 the goad. 
goad 1 (god), v. t. [< goad*, n] To prick; drive 
with a goad; hence, to incite; stimulate; in- 
stigate; urge forward or rouse to action by any 
harassing or irritating means. 
Goaded with most sharp occasions, 
Which lay nice manners by, I put you to 
The use of your own virtues. 
Shak., All's Well, v. 1. 
Goad him on with thy sword. 
Fletcher (and another). False One, v. 3. 
Who would bring back the by-gone penalties, and goad 
on tender consciences to hypocrisy? 
Story, Speech, Salem, Sept. 18, 1828. 
-Syn. To impel, spur, arouse, stir up, set on. 
goad 2 t, n. [Appar. a corruption of gourd, in 
same sense.] A sort of false die. Nares. 
Faith, ray lord, there are more, but I have learned but 
three sorts, the goade, the Fulham, and the stopkater-tre. 
Chapman, Monsieur d'Olive. 
goad 3 (god), . [A var. of gaud.] A plaything. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
goal 
goad-groomt, A carter or plowman; one 
who uses the goad. Duties. 
goadsman (g6dVman),H.; p\.goadsmcn (-men). 
[< goad, poss. goad's, + man; = garteman, Sc. 
gauilsman.] One who drives oxen with a goad ; 
an ox-driver. 
Ye may be goadsman for the first twa or three days, and 
tak teut ye dinna o'er-drive the owsen, and then ye will be 
fit to gang between the stilts. Scott, Old Mortality, vi. 
goad-spur (god'sper), H. 
A spur without a rowel 
and having a single more 
or less blunt point. In 
the early middle ages 
this was the common 
form in Europe, 
goadster (god'ster), . 
who drives with a goad; a goadsman. 
Cars drawn by eight white horses, goadsters in classical 
costume, with fillets and wheat-ears enough. 
Carlyle, French Rev., II. iii. 7. 
goaf (gof), n. ; pi. goaves (govz). [Also goffttoA 
gove, formerly gofe (cf. verb pore 1 ): cf. Icel. 
gotf, a floor, apartment, = Sw. golf= Dan. gulv, 
a floor.] 1. A stack or cock, as of grain. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
He was in his labour stacking up a go/oi corn. 
Fox, quoted in Wood's Athena; Oxon., I. 592. 
2. A rick of corn in the straw laid up in a barn. 
Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 3. In coal-mining, a 
space from which coal has been worked away, 
and which is more or less filled up with refuse. 
Goad-spur, i3th or 14th cen- 
tury. (From Viollet-le-Duc's 
" Diet, du Mobilier fran^ais." ) 
[< goad + -uter.] One 
In this sense generally used in the plural, the goaves. The 
refuse rock or material with which the goaves are filled 
is called gob, or sometimes goaf. It is the attle or deads 
of the metal-miner. See gobs. 
To work the goaf, or gob, to remove the pillars of min- 
eral matter previously left to support the roof, and replace 
them with props. Ure. 
It must 1 10 remembered that the gas exists in mines un- 
der two quite distinct conditions, that in the //oaves and 
waste places being free. Nature, XXXVI. 437. 
goaf-flap (gof'flap), n. A wooden beater to 
knock the ends of the sheaves and make the 
goaf more compact. Halliicell. [Prov. Eng.] 
go-ahead (go'a-hed'), a. [Attrib. use of the 
verb-phrase go ahead.] Energetic; pushing; 
active; driving. See ahead, 2. [Colloq.] 
You would fancy that the go-ahead party try to restore 
order and help business on. Not the least. 
Kingsley, Two Years Ago, xiv. 
go-aheadative (go'a-hed'a-tiv), a. [Irreg. < go- 
ahead + -ative.] Pushing"; driving; energetic. 
Farmer. [Humorous.] 
go-aheadativeness (go'a-hed'a-tiv-nes), . The 
character of being go-aheadative. Also go- 
aheaditivencss. [Humorous.] 
The roan that pulls up stakes in the East and goes out 
to Kansas or Nebraska must have considerable enterprise 
and go-aheaditiveness. Sci. Amer., N. S., LV. 373. 
goal 1 (gol), n. [Early mod. E. goale, gale; < OF. 
gaule, earlier wattle, a pole, a rod, F. gaule, a 
pole, of OLG. origin, < OFries. walu (in comp.), 
North Fries, waal = Icel. volr = Sw. dial, val = 
Goth, walus, a staff, stick, = AS. walu, a mark 
made bytheblowof a rod, E. wale: see wale 1 .] 
1. A pole, post, or other object set up to mark 
the point determined for the end of a race, or for 
both its beginning and end, whether in one 
course or several courses ; a mark or point to 
be reached in a race or other contest; the limit 
of a race. 
As in the rennynge passyng the gole is accounted but 
rashenesse, so rennynge halfe way is reproued for slow- 
ness. Sir T. Elyot, The Goveruour, Hi. 20. 
Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal 
With rapid wheels. Milton, P. L., ii. 631. 
So self starts nothing but what tends apace 
Home to the goal, where it began the race. 
Cowper, Charity, 1. 566. 
2. In athletic games and plays, the mark, point, 
or line toward which effort is directed, in foot- 
ball, lacrosse, and similar games the goal consists of two 
upright posts placed in the ground a short distance from 
each other, and generally connected by a cross-beam or 
string, through or over which the players try to throw or 
kick the ball. 
They pitch two bushes in the ground, . . . which they 
tenne goale*, where some indifferent person throweth up 
a ball, the which whosoever can catch and carry through 
his adversaries goale hath wonne the game. 
R. Carew, quoted in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, p. 167. 
A safe and well-kept goal is the foundation of all good 
play. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 5. 
Hence 3. In foot-ball, etc., the act of throw- 
ing or kicking the ball through or over the goal : 
as, to make a goal. 4. The end or termina- 
tion ; the finish. 
Still, as we nearer draw to life's dark goal, 
Be hopeful Spring the favorite of the Soul ! 
Wordsworth, To Lycorii. 
