godchild 
becomes sponsor (godfather or godmother) at 
baptism ; a godson or goddaughter. 
Goddam (god'dam'), . [< F. goddam, dial. 
godeme, OF. godon, goudon, an Englishman, 
used as a term of contempt or reproach (hence 
also goddon, a glutton, a swiller), < E. God 
damn, the characteristic national oath of Eng- 
lishmen.] An Englishman : a term of reproach 
applied by the French. Dacies. 
We will return by way of the bridge, and bring back 
with us a prisoner, a Goddam. 
Quoted in Lord Stanhope's Essays, p. 30. 
goddardt, goddartt (god'ard, -art), . [< OF. 
godart, with suffix -art (= E. -ard), equiv. to 
godet, a tankard: see goddet.] A tankard; a 
drinking-bowl : same as goddet. 
Lucrece entered, attended by a maiden of honour with a 
covered goddard of gold. 
R. Wilmot, Tancred and Gismunda, 11., Int. 
A. goddard, or an anniversary spice-bowl, 
Drank off by th' gossips. 
Gayton, Notes on Don Quixote, Iv. 5. 
goddaughter (god'da'ter), n. [< ME. goddogh- 
ter, goddowter, < AS. goddohtor (= Icel. gudhdot- 
tir = Sw. guddotter = Dan. guddatter), < god, 
God, + dohtor, daughter.] A female godchild. 
For with my name baptised was she, 
And such as it ia devised I sure, 
My goddaughter I may calle hir In vre. 
Rom, of Partenay (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 8722. 
How doth . . . your fairest daughter, and mine, my 
god-daughter Ellen? Shak., 2 Hen. IV., Hi. 2. 
god-dent, . A variant of good-den. 
goddess (god'es), n. [< ME. goddesse, goddes; 
< god + -ess, fern. term. (cf. F. dtesse). The 
AS. word is gyden (= D. godin = OHG. gutin, 
gutinna, MHG. giitinne, gotinne, gotinne, G. got- 
tin = Dan. gudinde = Sw. gudinna), < god + 
fern. term, -era.] A female god or deity. 
Celestial Dlan, goddess argentine, 
I will obey thee ! Shak., Pericles, v. 2. 
When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among 
a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her grace- 
ful stature and superior beauty. A>idi*tm. 
goddesshood (god'es-hud), . The state or dig- 
nity of a goddess. 
Should not my beloved, for her own sake, descend by 
degrees from goddess-hood into humanity ? 
Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, IV. 380. 
goddess-ship (god'es-ship), . [< goddess + 
-ship.] Bank, state, condition, or attribute of 
a goddess. 
Appear'dst thou not to Paris in this guise? 
Or to more deeply blest Anchises ? or. 
In all thy perfect goddess-ship, when lies 
Before thee thy own vanquish 'd Lord of War? 
Byron, Childe Harold, iv. 51. 
goddett, [Also godet; < OF. godet, goitdet, 
guodet, codet, a tankard. Cf. goddard.'] A tan- 
kard, generally covered, made of earthenware, 
metal, or wood. Florio. 
goddikint,". [< god 1 + dim. -i- + dim. -kin. Cf. 
manikin.] A little god. Davies. 
For one's a little Goddikin, 
No bigger than a skittle-pin. 
Cotton, Burlesque upon Burlesque, p. 281. 
goddizet, . t. [< god 1 + -ize.] To deify. 
Proserpin her offence, 
Growen, through misguides, veniall perhaps. 
We censure in suspence. 
And faire, loued, fear'd, Elizabeth 
Here goddiz'd euer since. 
Warner, Albion's England, ix. 44. 
godendat (go-den'da), . [ML. also godendus, 
(jodardus, godandardus.] See godendag. 
godendagt, n. [OF., also godendac, godandac, 
godandart, goudendart (ML. godenda, goden- 
dus, etc.), < OFlem. goedendag, lit. good-day: 
so called appar. in humorous allusion to its 
effective use in ' saluting ' or bidding farewell to 
the person attacked: see good-day.] A weapon 
used in the middle ages by foot-soldiers and 
light-armed men. The Flemings are mentioned as 
using them in the fourteenth century, under the name of 
goedendag. It seems to have been a heavy halberd or 
partizan ; it was perhaps in some cases a pike having a 
point only and no other blade. Also called good-day. 
godendartt, . Same as godendag. 
godett. " See goddet. 
Godetia (go-de'shia), n. [NL., named after M. 
Godet, a Swiss botanist.] An onagraceous ge- 
nus of plants, of nearly 20 species, natives of 
western America, sometimes united with (Eno- 
thera. The species are annuals with usually showy lilac- 
Sarple or rose-colored flowers. Several are found in cul- 
vation. 
go-devil (go'dev'l), n. 1 . A device for explod- 
ing a dynamite cartridge in an oil-well. See 
the extract. [U. S.] 
A queer-looking, pointed piece of iron, called the 30- 
devil, ia dropped down the well, and, striking a cap on the 
2562 
top of the torpedo, causes a terrific explosion at the hot- 
torn of the well. St. 'Nicholas, XIV. 48. 
2. A movable-jointed 
contractible apparatus, 
with interior springs se- 
cured to iron plates in 
overlapping sections, 
something like an elon- 
gated cartridge in shape 
and about three feet 
long, introduced into a 
pipe-line for the pur- 
pose of freeing it from 
obstructions. The motion 
of the oil carries it along, and <;o-<ievii (def. i). 
its flexibility allows of its 
turning sharp angles and going through narrow spaces. 
3. A rough sled used for holding one end of a 
log in hauling it out of the woods, etc., the 
other end dragging on the snow or ice. Also 
called tieboy. [Northwestern U. S.] 
godfather (god'fa'THer), n. [< ME. godfader, 
< AS. godfader (= OS. godfader = MD. godvader 
= Icel. gudhfadhir = Sw. Dan. gudfader), < god, 
God, + feeder, father.] 1. In the liturgical 
churches, a man who at the baptism of a child 
makes a profession of the Christian faith in its 
name, and guarantees its religious education ; 
a male sponsor. See sponsor. 
Sin he will not leue the boke he began, 
Hys godfader, to whom God gif pardon ! 
By hym of it gret laud and presiing wan. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 6809. 
There shall be for every Male-child to be baptized . . . 
two Godfathers and one Godmother ; and for every Female, 
two Godmothers and one Godfather. 
Book of Common Prayer. 
2f. A juryman, as jocularly held to be godfather 
to the prisoner. 
In christening, thou shall have two godfather! : 
Had I been judge, thou shouldst have had ten more, 
To bring thee to the gallows, not to the font, 
Shak., M. of V., Iv. 1. 
I had rather zee him remitted to the jail, and have his 
twelve godmthers, good men and true, condemn him to 
the gallows. Randolph, Muses Looking-glass. 
God-fearing (god'fer'ing), a. Reverencing and 
obeying God. 
Enoch as a brave God-fearing man 
Bow'd himself down, and . . . 
Pray'd for a blessing on his wile and babes, 
Whatever came to him. Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
God-forsaken (god'fr-sa'kn), a. 1. Seeming 
as if forsaken by God; hence, forlorn; deso- 
late; miserable. 
I have rarely seen anything quite so bleak and God-for- 
saken as this village. A few low black huts, in a desert of 
snow that was all. B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 117. 
2. Cast out or abandoned by God ; supremely 
wicked ; utterly reprobate : as, a God-forsaken 
community or band of pirates. 
godful (god'ful), a. [<T god 1 + -ful] If. In- 
spired. Dories. 
Homer, Musanis, Quid, Maro. more 
Of those god-full prophets longe before, 
Holde their eternal! Hers. Herrick. 
2. Godly. [Rare.] 
He Is a true godful man, though in his love for the ideal 
he disregards too much the actual. 
C. Francis, quoted In Andover Rev., VIII. 389. 
godget. A contraction of God give. 
Godge you god morrow, sir. Chapman, May-Day. 
godhead (god'hed), n. [< ME. godhed, godhede 
(also godhod, > E. godhood) (= D. godheid = 
OHG. gotheit, MHG. goteheit, Q. gottheit) ; < god 1 
+ -head."} 1 . The state of being God or a god ; 
divine nature ; deity ; divinity. 
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the 
world are clearly seen, . . . even his eternal power and 
Godhead. Rom. i. 20. 
That was the way to make his [Cupid's] godhead wax. 
Shak., L. L. L, v. 2. 
2. [cap.] The essential being or nature of God; 
the Supreme Being in all his attributes and re- 
lations. 
We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto 
gold, or silver, or stone. Acts xvii. 29. 
In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 
Col. U. 9. 
3. A deity ; a god or goddess. 
Adoring first the genius of the place, 
The nymphs and native godheads yet unknown. 
Dryden, JSneid. 
godhood (god'hud), n. [< ME. godhod; < god 1 
+ -hood. Cf. godhead.] Divine character or 
quality ; godlike nature ; godship. 
Woodst thou have godhood t 
I will translate this beauty to the spheres, 
Where thou shalt shine the brightest star in heaven. 
Heywood, Silver Age. 
god-maker 
The world is alive, instinct with Godhood. Carlyle. 
godless (god'les), a. [< ME. godles (= D. god- 
deloos = G. gottlos = Icel. yudltlauss, godhlauss 
= Sw. Dan. gudlos = Goth, gudalaus), < god 
+ -leg.] 1. Haying or acknowledging no God; 
impious ; atheistical ; ungodly ; irreligious ; 
wicked. 
He deceaueth himselfe, and maketh a mocke of himself e 
vnto the godles hypocrites and infidels. 
Tiindale, Works, p. 99. 
For faults not his, for guilt and crimes 
Of godless men, and of rebellious times, 
Him bis ungrateful country sent, 
Their best Camillus, into banishment. Dryden. 
2. [cap.] Lacking the presence of God; re- 
moved from divine care or cognizance ; God- 
forsaken. [Rare.] 
The Goiless gloom 
Of a life without sun. Tennyson, Despair. 
=Syn. 1. Ungodly, Unrighteous, etc. See irreligious. 
godlessly (god'les-li), adv. In a godless man- 
ner. 
godlessness (god'les-nes), n. The state or 
quality of being godless, impious, or irreligious. 
The sinner gives himself over to a wild and loose pro- 
faneneas, to a lawless course of godlessness. 
Bp. Hall, Remains, p. 87. 
godlike (god'lik),o. [< god 1 + like. Cf. godly, a.] 
Like God or a god in any respect ; of divine 
quality; partaking of or exercising divine at- 
tributes ; supremely excellent. 
Sure, be that made us ... gave us not 
That capability and godlike reason 
To fust in us unus'd. Shak., Hamlet, iv. 4. 
The most godlike impersonality men know is the sun. 
T. Winthnp, Canoe and Saddle, v. 
godlikeness (god'lik-nes), n. The state of be- 
ing godlike. 
godlily (god'li-li), adv. In a godly manner; 
piously; righteously. 
Requiring of him [Calvin] that by his grave council! and 
godly exhortation he would animate her majesty constant- 
ly to follow that which godlily she had begun. 
Knox, Hist. Reformation, an. 1558. 
godliness (god'li-nes), . [< godly + -ness.] 
The character or quality of being godly ; con- 
formity to the will and law of God ; piety. 
Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 
Godliness being the chiefest top and well-spring of all 
true virtues, even as God is of all good things. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 2. 
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, 
So didst thou [Milton] travel on life's common way, 
In cheerful godliness. Wordsworth, London, 1802. 
= Syn. Saintliness, Holiness, etc. See religion. 
godling (god'ling), n. [< god* + -ling*.] A 
little or inferior deity. 
Shew thy Self gratious, affable and meek ; 
And be not (proud) to those gay godlings like, 
But once a year from their gilt Boxes tane, 
To impetrate the Heav'ns long wisht-for raine. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Magnificence. 
The puny godlings of inferior race, 
Whose humble statues are content with brass. 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal. 
godly (god'li), a. [Not in ME. or AS. (AS. godlic 
= OS. godlic, goodly: see goodly); = OFries. 
godlik = D. goddelijk = OHG. gotelih, kotelih, 
gotlih, MHG. gotelich, gotelieh, gotlich, G. gottlich 
= Icel. gudhligr = Sw. gudlig = Dan. gudelig; 
ne god 1 + -ly 1 .] 1. Pious; reverencing God and 
his character and laws ; controlled by religious 
motives. 
Help, Lord ; for the godly man ceaseth ; for the faithful 
fall from among the children of men. Pa. xil. 1. 
Ill ne'er be drunk whilst I live again, but in honest, 
civil, godly company. Shak., M. W. of W., L 1. 
2. Conformed to or influenced by God's laws : 
as, a godly life. 
They humbly sue unto your excellence, 
To have t. godly peace concluded of 
Between the realms of England and of France. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 1. 
3. Of or pertaining to a god ; characteristic of 
a god ; godlike. 
The grace divinest Mercury hath done me ... 
Binds my observance in the utmost term 
Of satisfaction to his godly will. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 1. 
= Syn. 1 and 2. Holy, devout, saintly. See religion. 
godly (god'li), adv. [= D. goddelijk = OHG. 
"gotelicho, MHG. goteliche, gotliche; as god 1 + 
-iy^.] In a godly manner ; piously. 
All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer per- 
secution. 2 Tim. Ui. 12. 
By the means of this man and some few others in that 
University many became godly learned. 
Strype, Memorials, Hen. VIII., an. 1540. 
godlyheadt, n. [< godly + -head.] Goodness. 
god-maker (god'ma'ker), n. One who formu- 
lates or originates an image or conception of 
God, or of a god or gods. [Rare.] 
