goal 
6. The end or final purpose ; the end to which 
a design or a course of action tends, or which a 
person aims to reach or accomplish. 
Then honour be but a goal to my will, 
This day I'll rise, or else add ill to ill. 
Shak., Pericles, ii. 1. 
Each individual seeks a several goal. 
Pope, Essay on Man, 11. 237. 
O yet we trust that somehow good 
Will be the final goal of ill. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, liv. 
6f. A barrow or tumulus. Halliirrll. 
goal'-'t, and v. An erroneous spelling of gaol 
(now commonly jail), often found in books of 
the seventeenth century, 
goal-keeper (g61'ke"per), n. In foot-ball and 
lacrosse, a player whose special duty it is to 
prevent the ball from being thrown or kicked 
through the goal. 
goal-post (gol'post), . One of the upright 
posts forming one side of the goal. See goal, 2. 
goam (gom), v. t. A. dialectal variant of gaum 1 . 
goan 1 (gon), v. i. A dialectal variant of gan 3 , 
gane, yawn. 
gpan 2 (gon), n. A dialectal variant of gaun 2 . 
6oa powder. See powder. 
goar f t, . See gore 1 . 
goar-t, See gore?. 
goared, p. a. See gored. 
goarisht, a. [Perhaps < goar%, gore%, a piece 
inserted, + -ixh 1 (and thus equiv. to 'patched') ; 
or an orig. misprint (for boarishi boorisM).] 
A doubtful word, found only in the following 
passage : 
May they know no language but that gibberish they 
prattle to their parcels, unless it be the goarish Latin they 
write in their bond. Beau, and Fl., Philaster, v. 1. 
goastt, n. ATI obsolete spelling of ghost. 
5oa stone (go'a ston). (a) Same as Goa ball, 1. 
The Goa-stone was in the 16th (?) and 17th centuries as 
much in repute as the Bezoar, and for similar virtues. . . . 
So precious was it esteemed that the great usually car- 
ried it about with them in a casket of gold filigree. 
C. W. King, Nat. Hist, of Gems, p. 256. 
(6) Same as bezoar-stone. See bezoar. 
goat 1 (got), n. [< ME. tjote, goot, got, gat, pi. 
gcet, get, geet, geit, etc., < AS. gat (pi. gcet, get), 
fern, (or common the masc. word being bucca 
orgat-bucca: see buck 1 ), = D. LG. geit, MLG. 
geite (rare) = OHG. geiz, MHG. geiz, Gr. geiss = 
Icel. geit = Sw. get = Dan. ged = Goth, gaits, f., 
a goat, dim. gaitein, n., a kid, = L. hcedus, m., 
a kid. Of. Capra (caper 1 ) and Hircus.] 1. A 
horned ruminant quadruped of the genus Capra 
(or Hircus). The horns are hollow, erect, turned back- 
ward, annular, scabrous, and anteriorly ridged. The male 
is generally bearded under the chin. Goats are nearly of 
the size of sheep, but stronger, less timid, and more agile. 
They frequent rocks and mountains, and subsist on scanty 
coarse food. They are sprightly, capricious, and wanton, 
and their strong odor (technically called hircine) is pro- 
verbial. Their milk is sweet, nourishing, and medicinal, 
and their flesh furnishes food. Goats are of several spe- 
cies, and it is not certainly known from which the domes- 
tic goat (C. hireus) is descended, though opinion favors 
the Persian paseng, C. cegagrus. (See cut under cegagrus.) 
It is quite likely that more than this one feral stock has 
contributed to the domestic breeds. Goats are all indi- 
genous to the eastern hemisphere, though now raised in 
all parts of the world, and many varieties are valued for 
their hair or wool, as the Cashmere goat, the Angora goat, 
the dwarf or Guinean goat, the Egyptian or Nubian, the 
Maltese, the Nepal, the Syrian, etc. Some of them are 
hornless. The nearest wild relative of the goat Is the 
ibex. The so-called Rocky Mountain goat belongs to a 
different group (see below). The name goat is often ex- 
tended to some goat-like antelopes, as the dzeren. The 
male of the goat is called a buck, and the young a lad. 
The sexes are distinguished as he-goats and she-goats, or 
colloquially as billy-goats and nanny-goats. 
2. pi. In zoo/., the Caprinee as a subfamily of 
Bocidce or Antilopidte. There are several gen- 
era and species. See Mgocerus, Capra, Hemi- 
tragus, Kemas. 3. Same as goatskin, 2. 4. A 
stepping-stone. [Prov. Eng.] Angora goat, a 
variety of goat, Capra angorensis, native to the district 
surrounding Angora in Asia Minor, distinguished for its 
long and beautiful silky hair. The yarn is known as Tur- 
key yarn or camel-yarn. See Angora vxol, under wool. 
Sometimes incorrectly called Angola goat. Goat's-halr 
Cloth, cloth made of goat's hair, or of the finer wool that 
ia mingled with the long hair of some species of goats. Sec 
cashmere, inohair, rampttor. Goat's-hair gloss, the 
beautiful luster peculiar to certain pile-carpets of India 
and northern Persia, supposed to be a property of the soft 
goat's hair of which the pile is made. Rocky Moun- 
tain goat, lift i>l< tcerus montanus, a kind of antelope in- 
habiting the higher mountain-ranges of western North 
America, with a thick fleece of long white hair or wool, 
and short, sharp, and smooth black horns, like those of the 
chamois, of which it is a near relative. It is the only 
American representative of its kind, and not a goat in 
any proper sense. See flaplocerus. Yellow goat. Same 
as dzeren. 
goat 2 (got), n. Another spelling of gote. 
goat-antelope (g6t'an"te-16p), n. A goat-like 
antelope of the genus XemorJiedus, as the goral, 
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.V. goral, or X. crift/nts of Japan. P. L. Sclatcr. 
See cut under goral. 
goat-beard (got'berd), n. Same as goat's-beunl. 
goat-buck (got'buk), . A he-goat. 
goat-chafer (got'cha"fer), . A kind of bee- 
tle, probably the chafer Melolontlm aolstUtaUt, 
the favorite food of the goatsucker. 
goatee (go-te'), . [< goat + -en 2 ; the thing 
being likened to the beard of a goat.] A tuft 
of beard left on the chin after the rest has been 
shaved off; an imperial, especially one extend- 
ing under the chin. [Colloq.] 
goat-fish (got'fish), n. 1. The European file- 
fish, Balistes capriscus. 2. A West Indian and 
South American mulloid fish, Upeneus macula- 
tus, of a red color with bluish longitudinal lines 
on the sides of the head and three black blotches 
on the body above the lateral line. 
goatfold (got'fold), n. A fold or inclosure for 
goats. 
goathead (got'hed), . An old book-name of 
a godwit, Limosa eegocephala, translating the 
classic name of this or some similar bird. 
goatherd (got'herd), . [Early mod. E. also 
goteheard; < ME. gootherde, gateheyrd, < AS. 
gata hyrde (= Sw. getherde = Dan. gedehyrde) : 
gata, gen. pi. of gat, a goat ; hyrde, a herd, keep- 
er.] One whose occupation is the care of goats. 
Is not thilke same a goteheard prowde, 
That sittes on yonder bancke, 
Whose straying heard them selfe doth shrowde 
Emong the bushes rancke ? 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., July. 
The goatherd, blessed man ! had lips 
Wet with the muses' nectar. 
Wordsworth, Prelude, xi. 
goatish (go'tish), a. [< goat 1 + -wh 1 .] 1. Char- 
acteristic of or resembling a goat; hircine. 
To kepe him from pikinge it was a greate paine ; 
He gased on me with his goatishe berde ; 
When I loked on him, me purse was half aferde. 
Skelton, The Bouge of Court. 
On's shield the goatish Satires dance around 
(Their heads much lighter then their nimble heels). 
P. Fletcher, Purple Island, vii. 
Hence 2. Wanton; lustful; salacious. 
An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his 
goatish disposition on the charge of a star. 
Shak., Lear, 1. 2. 
I should strike 
This steel into thee, with as many stabs 
As thou wert gazed upon with goatish eyes. 
B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. 3. 
goatishly (go'tish-li), adv. In a goatish man- 
ner; lustfully. 
goatishneSS (go'tish-nes), . The quality of 
being goatish ; lustfulness ; salaciousness. 
goatland (got'land), n. The land of goats; a 
mountainous region. [Bare.] 
Pray you, sir, observe him ; 
He is a mountaineer, a man of goatland. 
Fletcher, Pilgrim, iv. 3. 
goat-marjoram (got'mar // jo-ram), n. Goafs- 
beard. 
goat-milker (got'mil"ker), n. Same as goat- 
sucker. 
goat-moth (got'moth), n. A large dark-colored 
moth, Cossus ligniperda, belonging to the fam- 
ily CossidfE. It is from 3 to 3J inches in expanse 
of wings. See cut under Cossus. 
gpat-OWl (got'oul), n. The goatsucker or night- 
jar, Caprimulgus europ<etts. Montagu. 
goat's-bane (gots'ban), . The plant wolfs- 
bane, Aconitum Lycoctonum. 
goafs-beard (gots'berd), n. 1. The Tragopo- 
gon pratensis, a European composite plant with 
long and coarse pappus. 2. The Spiraea Arun- 
cus: so called from the arrangement of its 
many slender spikes of small flowers in a long 
panicle. A very similar plant, Astilbe decan- 
dra, is known as false goafs-beard. 3. Any 
one of several fungi of the genus Clavaria. 
Gray goat's-beard, a species of fungus belonging to the 
genus Clavaria. 
goat's-foot (gots'fut), n. and a. I. n. The 
plant Oxalis caprina, a South African species 
cultivated in greenhouses. 
II. a. Resembling a goat's foot. Goat's-foot 
lever. See lever. 
goat's-horn (gots'hdrn), n. The Astragalus 
jEgiceras, a plant of southern Europe, some- 
times cultivated. 
goatskin (got'skin), n. 1. The detached skin 
of the goat, with or without the hair. 
They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; be- 
ing destitute, afflicted, tormented. Heb. xi. 37. 
2. Tanned or tawed leather from the skin of 
the goat. The best dyed morocco, used in bookbinding 
and for fine shoes, etc., consists of goatskin. Tawed goat- 
skin is used for wash-leather, gloves, etc. Also called goat. 
gobbet 
goat's-rue (gots'rS), . A plant, Galega offici- 
nulis. See rue'*. 
goat's-thorn (gots'th&rn), . An evergreen 
plant of southern Europe and the Levant, 
Astragalus Poteriwn and A. Massiliensis, some- 
times cultivated. 
goatstone (got'ston), . The bezoar of a goat. 
goatsucker (got'suk'er), n. The European 
night-jar, Caprimulgus curopatus: so called from 
the vulgar notion that it sucks goats ; by ex- 
tension, any bird of the same gemis, or of the 
family Caprimulgi<ke. The above-named species Is 
also called goat-owl, niyht-churr, churn-owl, fern-owl, and 
Goatsucker ( Cafrimulgus curopaus). 
by other names. The best-known American goatsuckers 
are the whippoorwill, chuck-will's-widow, and night*hawk. 
The word was first a book-name, translating the Latin ca- 
primulgtu!, itself a translation of the earlier Greek 0170- 
0jAa9. Also called goat-milker. See Caprimvlgidce. 
goatweed (got 'wed), n. 1. The plant gout- 
weed, JEgopodium Podagraria. 2. In the West 
Indies, one of the scrophulariaceous weeds Ca- 
praria biflora and Stemodia durantifolia Goat- 
weed butterfly. See butterfly. 
goave, v. i. See gore 2 . 
goaves, n. Plural of goaf. 
gob 1 (gob), n. [Also dial, gab; < Gael, gob, the 
beak or bill of a bird, the mouth, = Ir. gob, gab, 
cab, the beak, snout, mouth; cf. W. gwp, the 
head and neck of a bird. Cf . job 1 , which is an 
assibilated form of gob 1 .'] The mouth. [Pro- 
vincial.] 
gob 2 (gob), . [An abbr. of the older gobbet, 
q. v., which is ult., as gob 1 is directly, of Celtic 
origin.] A mouthful; hence, a little mass or 
collection; a dab; a lump. [Colloq.] 
It were a gross gob would not down with him. 
Chapman, All Fools, iii. I. 
Lordy massy, these 'ere young uns ! There's never no 
contentin' on 'em : ye tell 'em one story, and they jest 
swallows it as a dog does a gob o' meat ; and they're all 
ready for another. H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 5. 
gob 3 (gob), n. [Perhaps a particular use of gob 2 , 
but cf. goaf, goff%.~\ In coal-mining, the refuse 
or waste material from the workings in a mine ; 
attle. It is used to pack the goaves, so as to 
support the roof. 
gob 3 (gob), v. i. ; pret. and pp. gobbed, ppr. gob- 
bing. [< f/oo 3 , n.] In coal-mining, to pack away 
refuse so as to get rid of it and at the same time 
to help to keep the workings from caving in. 
To gob up, to become choked in working : said of a blast- 
furnace when it becomes obstructed by the chilling or in- 
sufficient fluxing of the contents, or the peculiar quality 
of the coal used. Gobbing up in the blast-furnaces of 
South Wales, where anthracite is used, is due to the run- 
ning together of the slag and the decrepitated particles of 
the coal into unfusible masses. See salamander, scaffold- 
ing, and slip*. 
gobang (go-bang'), n. [Jap. goban, Chinese 
k'i pan, chess- or checker-board.] A game 
played on a checker-board with different-col- 
ored counters or beads, the object being to get 
five counters in a row. It is called by the Japanese 
go-molni-narabc, or "live eyes in a row," the counters be- 
ing placed on the intersections of the lines forming the 
squares, and not on the squares. 
gobbe (gob), n. A name given in Surinam to 
the Voandzeia subterranea, a leguminous plant 
which ripens its pods underground, like the pea- 
nut, Arachis l\ypogcea, and is extensively culti- 
vated in Africa and South America. 
gobber-tootht, '. [Also gabber-tooth; cf. gab- 
tooth, gag-tooth.] A projecting tooth. Davies. 
Duke Richard was low in stature, crook backed, with one 
shoulder higher than the other, having a prominent gobber- 
tooth, [and] a war-like countenance which well enough be- 
came a soldier. Fuller, Ch. Hist., IV. ill. 8. 
gobbet (gob'et), n. [< ME. gobette, gobet, a 
small piece, a lump, fragment, < OF. gobet, gou- 
bet, F. gobet, a morsel of food, dim. of OF. 1706, 
a gulp, gobbet, < gober, gulp, devour, feed greed- 
