A Bordure Gobonated 
Argent and Gules. 
goblin 
In manye partea of the sayd land of Poytow haue ben 
shewed vnto many oon right famylerly many manyeres 
of things the which som called Gobelynx, the other Fay- 
rees, and the other bonnes dames or good ladyes. 
K'nii. uf Partenay (E. E. T. 8.), Pref., p. xiii. 
Go, charge my goblins that they grind their joints 
With dry convulsions ; shorten up their sinews 
With aged cramps. Shak., Tempest, iv. 1. 
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin danin'd, 
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, 
Be thy intents wicked or charitable. 
Shak., Hamlet, i. 4. 
=Syn. E(f, Gnome, etc. See fairy. 
gob-line (gob'lin), n. Nawt., a martingale baek- 
vope. Also written gaub-line. 
goblinize (gob'lin-iz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. gob- 
United, ppr. goblinizing. [< goblin + -ize.] To 
transform into a goblin. [Rare.] 
Once goblinized, Herodias joins them [demons!, doomed 
still to bear about the Baptist's head. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 118. 
goblinry (gob'lin-vi), . [< goblin + -ry.] The 
arts or practices of goblins. Imp. Diet. 
gobly-gOSSit (gob'li-gos"it), . The night-her- 
on or qua-bird, Nyetiardea grisea ncevia. [Local, 
New Eng.] 
gobonated (gob'o-na-ted), a. [As gobone + 
-ate 1 + -e<2 2 .] In her., same 
as compont. 
The bordure gobonated or com- 
IMHK- is now a mark of bastardy in 
Britain, by our late practices. 
Niibet, Heraldry (ed. 1816), II. 25. 
gobone, gobony (gob-o-na', 
go-bo'ni), a. [Appar. cor- 
ruptions of compone, a. v.] 
In her., same as compone. 
gob-road (gob'rod), n. In coal-mining, a pas- 
sage or gangway in a mine carried through the 
gob or goaves. Gob-road system, a form of the long- 
wall system of coal-working, in which all the main and 
branch roadways are made and maintained in the goaves, 
or in that part of the mine from which the coal has been 
worked out. [Eng.] 
gobstick (gob'stik), n. 1 . In angling, an instru- 
ment for removing a hook from a fish's mouth 
or throat; a disgorger; a gulleting-stick; a 
poke-stick. 2. A spoon. Halliwell. [Prov. 
Eng.] 3. A silver fork or spoon. [Thieves' 
cant.] 
goby (go'bi), n. ; pi. gobies (-biz). [< L. gobio, 
gobius, a gudgeon : see Gobius.] A fish of the 
genus Gobius or family Gobiidce ; a gobiid. 
Certain gobies of the genera Aphya and Crystallogobius 
have been shown by Professor Collett to be annual fishes. 
Smithsonian Report, 1883, p. 728. 
go-by (go'bi), n. [< go by, verbal phrase.] If. 
An evasion; an escape by artifice. 2. A pass- 
ing without notice; an intentional disregard, 
evasion, or avoidance : in the phrase to give or 
get the go-by. 
Becky gave Mrs. Washington White the go by in the 
ring. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xlviii. 
They cannot afford to give the go-by to their public 
pledges, and offer new pledges to be in turn repudiated 
hereafter. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XL. 124. 
3. The act of passing by or ahead in motion. 
The go-bye, or when a greyhound starts a clear length 
behind his opponent, passes him in the straight run, and 
gets a clear length in front. Encyc. Brit., VI. 615. 
4+. The second turn made by a hare in cross- 
ing. Halliwell. 
gO-by-groundt, n. and a. I. TO. A diminutive 
person. Nares. 
Indeede sir ... I had need have two eyes, to discerne 
so pettie a goe-by-ground as you. 
Copley, Wits, Fits, and Fancies (1614). 
II. a. Petty; insignificant. 
Such mushroome magistrates, such go-by-ground Gov- 
ernours. Dp. Gauden, Tears of the Church, p. 621. 
go-cart (go'kart), n. 1. A small framework 
with casters or rollers, and without a bottom, 
in which children learn to walk without danger 
of falling. 
Another taught their Babes to talk, 
Ere they cou'd yet in Goe-carts walk. 
Prior, Alma, H. 
My grandmother appears as if she stood in a large drum, 
whereas the ladies now walk as if they were in a go-cart. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 109. 
2f. A cabriolet formerly in use in England. 
Old Chariot bodies were cut down, and numberless 
transformations made, and the truth is, they all more or 
less bear a strong resemblance to the vehicles called Go- 
Carts, which ply for hire, as a sort of two-wheeled stages, 
in the neighborhood of Lambeth, the deep-cranked axle 
being the principal distinction. 
Adams, English Pleasure Carriages, p. 278. 
The Sultan Gilgal, being violently afflicted with a spas- 
mus, came six hundred leagues to meet me in a go-cart. 
Character of a Quack Doctor, quoted in Strutt's 
[Sports and Pastimes, p. 317. 
3. A light form of village-cart. 4. A small 
vehicle such as a child can draw. 
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I used to draw her to school on a go-cart nearly half of 
a century ago. Religious Herald, March 24, 188". 
5. A hand-cart. Bartlett. [U. S.] 
Goclenian (go-kle'ni-an), a. [< Gocleniw (see 
def.) + -an.} Pertaining to the German logi- 
cian Eudolf Gocleuius (1547-1628) Goclenian 
sorites, a chain-syllogism in which the premises are 
arranged as in the following example: An animal is a 
substance ; a quadruped is an animal ; a horse is a quad- 
ruped ; Bucephalus is a horse; therefore Bucephalus is a 
substance. 
god 1 (god or g6d), n. [< ME. god, godd, pi. godcs, 
goddes, < AS. god, m. (pi. godas), also god, n. 
(pi. godu), rarely *goda (in gen. pi. godena), m., 
= OS. OFries. D. god = MLG. got, LG. god = 
OHG. got, cot, MHG. got, Q. gott = Icel. godh, 
neut. pi., later gudh, m. (pi. gudhir), = Sw. 
Dan. gud = Goth, guth, m., gutha, guda, neut. 
pi., a god, God: a word common to all Teut. 
tongues, in which it has numerous derivatives, 
but not identified outside of Teut. It was orig. 
neuter, and generally in the plural, being ap- 
plied to the heathen deities, and elevated to 
the Christian sense upon the conversion of the 
Teutonic peoples. Popular etymology has long 
derived God from good; but a comparison of 
the forms (see good) shows this to be an error. 
Moreover, the notion of goodness is not con- 
spicuous in the heathen conception of deity, 
and in good itself the ethical sense is compara- 
tively late.] 1. [cap.] The one Supreme or 
Absolute Being. The conceptions of God are vari- 
ous, differing widely in different systems of religion and 
metaphysics; but they fall, in general, under two heads: 
theism, which is most fully developed in Christianity, and 
in which God is regarded as a personal moral being, dis- 
tinct from the Universe, of which he is the author and ruler ; 
and pantheism, in which God is conceived as not personal, 
and as identified with the universe. See theism, pantheism. 
[In this sense used only in the singular.] 
Ther-fore is seide a proverbe, that god will haue saued, 
no man may distroye. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 624. 
God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 1 John i. 5. 
God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his 
being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and 
truth. Shorter Catechism, ans. to qu. 4. 
By the name God, I understand a substance infinite 
[eternal, immutable], independent, all-knowing, all-pow- 
erful, and by which I myself, and every other thing that 
exists, if any such there De, were created. 
Descartes, Meditations (tr. by Veitch), iii. 
For as original and infinite power does not of itself con- 
stitute a God, neither is a God constituted by intelligence 
and virtue unless intelligence and goodness be themselves 
conjoined with this original and infinite power. 
Sir W. Hamilton. 
His [Spinoza's] philosophy, therefore, begins with the 
idea of God as the substance of all things, as the infinite 
unity, which is necessarily presupposed in all conscious- 
ness of finitude and difference. 
E. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 47. 
By God we understand the one absolutely and infinitely 
perfect spirit who is the creator of all. Cath. Diet., p. 377. 
2. In myth., a being regarded as superior to 
nature, or as presiding over some department 
of it ; a superior intelligence supposed to pos- 
sess supernatural or divine powers and attri- 
butes, either general or special, and considered 
worthy of worship or other religious service ; a 
divinity; a deity: as, the gods of the heathen; 
the god of the thunder or of riches; the sun- 
god; a fish-god. 
Suche fayned goddys noght is to cal on, 
Thing agayne our f eith and but f antisie ; 
No help ne socour to cal thaim vppon ; 
I lay theim apart and fully denye. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), Int., 1. 67. 
For none shall move the most high yixtx, 
Who are most sad, being cruel. Swinburne, F&ise. 
3. Figuratively, a person or thing that is made 
an object of extreme devotion or sought after 
above all other things ; any object of supreme 
interest or admiration. 
The old man's god, his gold, has won upon her. 
Fletcher and Shirley, Night -Walker, i. 1. 
Sir Aylmer Aylmer, that almighty man, 
The county God. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
4. An image of a deity; an idol. 
Thou Shalt make thee no molten gods. Ex. xxxiv. 17. 
He buys for Topham drawings and designs ; 
For Pembroke, statues, dirty gods, and coins. 
i Pope, Moral Essays, iv. 8. 
5. One of the audience in the upper gallery of 
a theater: so called from the elevated position, 
in allusion to the gods of Olympus. [Slang.] 
Hear him yell like an Indian, or cat-call like a gallery 
god. Christian Union, July 27, 1887. 
Act of God, in law. See act. Church of God. See 
church. Father in God. See father. Finger of God. 
Seefinger. Friends of God. See friend. God-a-mer- 
cyt. (a) God have mercy. 
Gru. Take thou the bill, give me thy mete-yard, and 
spare not me. 
Hor. God-a-mercy, Grumio ! then shall he have no odds. 
Shak., T. of theS,,iv. 3. 
godchild 
(b) God be thanked; thank <;.,.!. 
Pol. How does my good lord Hamlet? 
Ham. Well, god-'a-m, rgy, Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 
God bless the mark. See mark. -God forbid, an ex- 
clamation or answer of earnest deprecation or denial. In 
the New Testament it is used to render a Greek phrase M>I 
yfvfn.ro, literally "be it not," translated in the margin of 
the revised version "be it not so" (Latin abxit). God 
forbid elset. See else. God lid yout, God 'leld yout. 
See God yield you. God payst, God to payt, God will 
pay : a canting expression much used at one time by dis- 
banded soldiers and others who thought they had a right 
to live upon the public charity. Nares. 
Go swaggering up and down, from house to house, 
Crying, God pays. London Prodigal, ii. 3. 
He is undone, 
Being a cheese-monger, 
By trusting two of the younger 
Captains, for the hunger 
Of their half-starved number; 
Whom since they have shipt away, 
And left him God to pay. 
B. Jonson, Masque of Owls. 
God's acre. See God's-acre. God's advocate. See ad- 
vocate. God's board', the Lord's table ; the communion- 
table or altar. 
Then shall the Priest, turning him to God's board, kneel 
down. Book of Common Prayer (1549). 
God's day. (a) Sunday : more commonly called the Lord's 
day. (6t) Easter Sunday. 
In a manuscript homily entitled " Exortacio in die 
Pasche," written about the reign of Edward IV., we are 
told that the Paschal Day "in some place is callede Es- 
terne Day, and in sum place Goddes Day." 
Hampson, Medii .Kvi Kalendarium, I. 186. 
(c) Corpus Christi day. 
God's day, the great June corpus Domini. Browning. 
God's footstool. See footstool. God's forbodet. See 
forbod. God's good t , a blessing on a meal. Nares. 
Hee that for every qualme will take a receipt, and can- 
not make two meales, unlesse Galen bee his Gods good, 
shall bee sure to make the physition rich and himselfe a 
begger. l.nln. Euphues and his England. 
God's klchelt, a cake given to godchildren at their ask- 
ing blessing. Dunton, Ladies' Dictionary, 1694. God's 
markt, a mark placed on houses as a sign of the presence 
of the plague. Nares. 
Some with gods markes or tokens doe espie, 
Those marks or tokens shew them they must die. 
John Taylor, Works (1630). 
God's Sunday*, Easter Sunday. 
Easter Day is called God's Sunday in an ancient homily 
In Die Pasce : "Goode mene and wommen as ye Knowen 
alle welle this is callede in some place Astur Day, & in 
sum place Pasche Day, & in summe place Godeis Sunday. " 
Hampson, Medii Mvi Kalendarium, II. 184 (glossary). 
God's truce. See truce of God, under (nice. God's 
truth, absolute truth ; a positive fact : used in strong 
asseveration of the truth of an utterance. God toforet, 
or God before*. God going before, assisting, guiding, or 
favoring. Nares. 
Else, God tofore, myself may live to see 
His tired corse lie toiling in his blood. 
Kyd, tr. of Garnier's Cornelia, iii. 
Gpd yield yout (also variously God ild, God 'ield, God 
dild you, Middle English God yelde yow, etc.), God give 
you some recompense or advantage ; God reward you, or 
be good to you, 
"I have," quod he, "had a despit this day, 
God yelde yow! adoun in youre village." 
Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, 1. 477. 
God. dylde you, master mine. 
Bp. Still, Gammer Gurton's Needle. 
Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, 
And the gods yield you for 't. Shak. , A. and C. , iv. 2. 
Household gods, (a) In Row. myth. , gods presiding over 
the house or family ; Lares and Penates. Hence (ft) Ob- 
jects endeared to one from being associated with home. 
Bearing a nation, with all its household gods, into exile. 
Longfellow, Evangeline, ii. 1. 
House Of God. See house. Mother Of God. See ?no- 
ther. Name Of God. See name. 
god 1 ! (god), v. t. [< god 1 , .] To deify. 
Some 'gainst their king attempting open treason, 
Some godding Fortune (idol of ambition). 
Sylvester, Miracle of Peace. 
This last old man . . . 
Lov'd me above the measure of a father ; 
Nay, goaded me, indeed. Shak., Cor., v. 3. 
Not that the saints are made partakers of the essence 
of God, and so are godded with God, and christed with 
Christ. Edwards, Works, III. 09. 
god 2 t, a. and n. A Middle English form of good. 
Godartia (go-dar'ti-a), n. [NL. (Lucas, 1842), 
named after M. Godart, a French entomolo- 
gist.] 1. A genus of Madagascan butterflies, 
of one species, G. madagascariensis. 2. A ge- 
nus of lucanid beetles: same as Sclerognathux. 
Chenu, 1860. 
godbpte (god'bot), n. [Used historically, re- 
ferring to the AS. period, repr. AS. godbot, < 
god, God, + bot, compensation, boot: see boot 1 
and ftofe 1 .] In Anglo-Saxon law, a fine paid to 
the church. 
godchild (god'child), n. ; pi. godchildren (-chil- 
dren). [< ME. godchild (of. AS. godbearn, a 
godchild) ; < God + child: in ref. to the spiritu- 
al relation assumed to exist between them.] In 
the liturgical churches, one for whom a person 
