god-maker 
No man finds any difficulty in being his own God-maker. 
Bentham, Judicial Evidence, ii. 6. 
God-man (god'man), n. A divine man; an in- 
carnation of Deity in human form : an epithet 
of Jesus Christ. 
godmother (god'Tnu^H''^), . [< ME. </od- 
modcr, < AS. godmodor (= MD. t/odmoeder = Icel. 
giidhmddhir=Svf. gudmoder, </umor = Dan. </nd- 
moder), < god, God, + inodor, mother.] A wo- 
man who becomes sponsor for a child in bap- 
tism. See godfather, 1. 
Thou art no gudfader ne godmodere ! 
To on art thou swet, another bitter to. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 274. 
go-down (go-doun'), . 1. A draught of liquor. 
And many more whose quality 
Forbids their toping openly, 
Will privately, on good occasion, 
Take six go-downs on reputation. 
D'Urfey, Colin's Walk, iv. 
We have frolick rounds, 
We have merry go-downs, 
Yet nothing is done at random. 
Witts Recreations (1654). (Saret.) 
2. A cutting in the bank of a stream for en- 
abling animals to cross or to get to the water. 
[Western U. S.] 
godown (go-doun'), n. [< Malay godong, a 
warehouse.] In India, China, Japan, etc., a 
warehouse or storehouse. 
When the cotton has been picked, it is thrown upon the 
floor of a room in some godoum and thrashed. 
A. G. F. Eliot James, Indian Industries, p. 71. 
These buildings, which are known to the foreigners as 
godowns, have one or two small windows and one door, 
closed by thick and ponderous shutters. 
Pop. Set. Mo., XXVIII. 645. 
godpheret, n. [< God + phere, a bad spelling of 
fere, feer*, a companion, here intended appar. 
for pere, father. Cf. beaupere.] A godfather. 
My godphere was a Rablan or a Jew. 
B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, iv. 1. 
godroon (go-dron'), n. [< F. godron, a plait, 
ruffle, godroon.] A curved ruffle or fluted or- 
nament of great variety in form, used in cos- 
tume, and in architectural and other artistic 
decoration. Also, erroneously, gadroon. 
godrooned (go-drond'), a. [< godroon + -ed 2 .] 
Ornamented with godroons; hence, ornamented 
with any similar pattern. Also, erroneously, 
qadrooned. 
God's-acre (godz'a"ker), . [Not an old or 
native E. term, but recently imitated from G. 
Gottesacker (= D. godsakker), i.e.,' God's field ' : 
see god 1 and acre.'} A burial-ground. 
A ... green terrace or platform on which the church 
stands, and which in ancient times was the churchyard, 
or, as the Germans more devoutly say, God's-acre. 
Longfettow, Hyperion, ii. 9. 
It was an old Indian taste that nature should do its part 
toward the adornment of the God's-acre. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 449. 
godsend (god'send), . [< God + send.'] 1. 
Something regarded as sent by God; an un- 
looked-for acquisition or piece of good fortune. 
It was more like some fairy present, a godsend, as our 
familiarly pious ancestors termed a benefit received where 
the benefactor was unknown. Lamb, Valentine's Day. 
, . 
of the whole reign in this respect was a hand-to-mouth 
policy, assisted by occasional godsends in the shape of 
forfeitures and benevolences. 
Stubbt, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 262. 
2. A sending by God. [Rare.] 
As thou didst call on death, death shalt have 
Ay, with godsend quick to hell ! 
Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 192. 
god's-eye(godz'i), . [< ME. godeseie : seegod 1 
and eye 1 .] 1. The herb clary. Halliwell. 
2. The plant speedwell, Veronica Chanuedrys. 
[Prov. Eng. in both senses.] 
godship (god'ship), . [< god 1 + -ship.] 1. 
The rank or character of a god ; deity ; divinity. 
Anaxagoras, asserting one perfect mind ruling over all 
(which is the true Deity), effectually degraded all those 
other pagan Gods, the sun, moon, Und stars, from their 
godships. Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 233. 
Odin and Freya maintained their godihips in Gaul and 
Germany. L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, p. 267. 
2. A titular appellative of a god. 
O'er hills and dales their godships came. 
Prior, The Ladle. 
Godshouset (godz'hous), . [= OFries. godis- 
hus, godcshus = D. godshtiis, church, hospice, 
asylum, = MLG. godes-hus = MHG. goteshus, 
G. gotteshatts, church, temple, cloister, = Dan. 
gudshus, the house of God (cf. Goth, gud-liux, 
temple).] 1. A church: in this sense usually 
as two words, Gotfs house. 2. An almshouse. 
Built, they say, it was by Sir Richard de Abberbury, 
Knight, who also under it founded for poore people a 
godshouse. Holland, tr. of Camden's Britain, p. 284. 
2563 
godsibt, . A Middle English form of gossip. 
godsmitht (god'smith), w. [< god 1 + smith.] 
1. A maker of idols. 
Gods they had tried of every shape and size 
That godsmiths could produce or priests devise. 
Drydcn, Abs. and Achit., 1. 60. 
2. A divine smith. 
For tineas was actually wounded in the twelfth of the 
JJneis, though he had the same godsinith to forge his arms 
as had Achilles. Dryden, Epic Poetry. 
godson (god'sun), n. [= Se. gudeson; < ME. 
godson, godsone, also assimilated gossan (cf. 
gossip), < AS. godsunu (= Sw. gudson, guson = 
Dan. gudson), < god, God, + sunu, son.] A 
male godchild. 
His name was cleped Diouas, and many tymes Diane 
com to speke with hym, that was the goddesse, and was 
with hym many dayes, for he was hir godsone. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 307. 
Tell a* your neebours whan ye gae name, 
That Earl Richard's your gvde-son. 
Earl Richard (Child's Ballads, III. 399). 
What, did my father's godson seek your life? 
He whom my father nam'd ? your Edgar? 
Shak., Lear, U. 1. 
God-speed (god'sped'), n. [< God speed you, 
1. e., 'I wish that God may speed or prosper 
you,' mixed with good speed, i. e., 'I wish that 
you may have good speed or success.' See 
good speed, under good.] A wish of success or 
prosperity; specifically, as a wish in behalf of 
another, a prosperous journey. 
Receive him not into your house, neither bid him God 
speed [and give him no greeting, R. V. ] 2 John 10. 
lie slit her nose by this light, and she were ten ladies ; 
twas not for nothing my husband said hee should meete 
her this evening at Adonis chappell ; but and I come to 
the God-speed on 't, He tell em on 't soundly. 
lie of Gulls (1633> 
To him your summons comes too late 
Who sinks beneath his armor's weight, 
And has no answer but God-speed. 
Whittier, The Summons. 
godspelt, godspellert, etc. Middle English 
forms of gospel, etc. 
God's-pennyt (godz'pen'i), . [= D. godspen- 
ning = MLG. godespennink = ODan. gudspen- 
ninge.~] 1. Money given in alms to the poor 
or to the church. 
The arrha was called "weinkauf," because it was usu- 
ally spent for wine drunk by the witnesses of the sale ; or 
God's penny, because it was devoted to charity. 
J. L. Laughlin, Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law, p. 189, note. 
2. An earnest-penny. 
"Give me the gold, good John o' the Scales, 
And thine for aye my lande shall bee." 
Then John he did him to record draw, 
And John he cast him a gods-pennte. 
Heir of Linne (Child's Ballads, VIII. 62). 
Come strike me luck with earnest, and draw the writ- 
ings. There's a God's-penny for thee. 
Beau, and Fl., Scornful Lady. 
god-tree (god'tre), . The cotton-tree of the 
tropics, Eriodendron anfractuosum : so called 
from the superstitious veneration in which it 
is held by the natives. 
Godward, Godwards (god'ward, -wardz), adv. 
Toward God: as, to look Godward To God- 
ward [that is, to God -ward, a variation by tmesis of toward 
God : see toward, -ward], toward God. 
All manner virtuous duties that each man In reason and 
conscience (o Godward oweth. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v, 4. 
Such trust have we through Christ to God-ward. 
2 Cor. ill. 4. 
What the Eye of a Bat is to the Sun, the same is all hu- 
man Understanding to Godwards. Howell, Letters, ii. 11. 
godwin (god'win), n. Same as godwit. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
Godwinia (god-win'i-a),)i. [NL., from the prop- 
er name Godwin (AS. Godwine, < god, God, + 
wine, a friend).] A genus of plants, natural 
order Araceat: same as Dracontium, 1. 
godwit (god'wit), n. [First in early mod. E. 
(cited, in a Latinized form goduuitta, by Tur- 
ner, 1544) ; appar. a native E. word, but not 
found in ME. or AS. The conjectured deriva- 
tion based on the present form of the word and 
tnesafedoa). 
goetic 
reflected in Casaubon's translation (1611) " !>< i 
ingenium," and that which makes it 'good crea- 
ture' (< AS. god, good, + wiht, wight, crea- 
ture), "from the excellence of their flesh" or 
for some other reason, are improbable ; and ab- 
sence of early record makes it hazardous to as- 
sume a popular corruption of a ME. form goat- 
head (through *gothed, "godded, > "goddet, > 
"goddit, > godwit). The dial, godwin is later, 
appar. conformed to the surname Godwin.] A 
bird of the genus lAmosa, ; a barge ; a goathead. 
The godwits resemble curlews, but the bill is slightly re- 
curved instead of decurved. There are several species, of 
world-wide distribution. The species originally called 
goathead is the black-tailed godwit of Europe, Limosa 
teffocephala or L. melanura. The European bar-tailed 
godwit is L. lapponica. (See cut under Limom.) The 
largest known species is the marbled godwit of North 
America, L.fedoa. The Hudsonian godwit, /.. hcemastica, 
is a smaller and scarcer species of the same country. 
Your eating 
Pheasant and god-wit here in London, haunting 
The Globes and Mermaids I wedging in with lords 
Still at the table. B. Jonson, Devil is an Ass, ill. 3. 
Cinereous godwit. Same as greenshank. Godwit day, 
May 12th, when the godwits begin to move south, on Brey- 
don water, England. New York godwit, a book-name 
of the dowltcher or red-breasted snipe, Macrorhamphvjt 
griseus. Sioainson and Richardson, 1831. 
goet. An obsolete form of go or gone. 
goelt, [E. dial. (East.), a form of yellow, < 
AS. geolu Icel. gulr = Sw. Dan. gul: see yel- 
low."] Yellow. 
Hop-roots . . . 
The goeler and younger the better I love. 
Tuner, Five Hundred Points. 
goent. An obsolete form of gone, past partici- 
ple of go. 
goer (go'er), n. [< ME. goere; <.go,v.,+ -eri.] 
1. One who or that which goes, runs, walks, 
etc. : often applied to a horse or a locomotive, 
etc., with reference to speed or gait, or to a 
watch or clock, with reference to time-keeping 
qualities: as, a good goer; a safe goer. 
And so the! eten every day in his Court, mo than 30000 
persones, with outen goeres and comeres. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 277. 
Is the rough French horse brought to the dore ? 
They say he is a high goer; I shall soon try his mettle. 
Beau, and Fl., Cupid's Revenge, it 1. 
The Tally-ho was a tip-top goer, ten miles an hour in- 
cluding stoppages, and so punctual that all the road set 
their clocks by her. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 4. 
A dog with a broad, bull-dog cheek is never a good goer. 
The Century, XXXI. 371. 
2f. A foot. 
A double mantle cast 
Athwart his shoulders, his faire goers graced 
With fitted shoes. Chapman. 
Goera (go'e-ra), n. [NL. (Curtis, 1854), < Gr. 
yocp6(;, mournful, distressful, < y6oc, mourning, 
wailing: see goety.] A genus of caddis-flies, 
of the family Sericostomatidce, having the inter- 
claval area in the fore wings suddenly dilated 
and denudated at the end. The sole species is 
G. pilosa of Europe, common in swift-running 
streams. 
goer-between (gd'er-be-twen'), ; pi. goers- 
6etoee(g6'erz-). Same as go-between. [Rare.] 
Let all pitiful goers-between be called to the world's end 
after my name; call them all Pandars. 
Shak., T. andC., iii. 2. 
goer-by (go'er-bi'), n. ; pi. goers-by (go'erz-bi'). 
One who goes or passes by; a passer-by. 
[Rare.] 
These two long hours I have trotted here, and curiously 
Survey'd all goers-by, yet find no rascal, 
Nor any face to quarrel with. 
/,'''". and Fl. , Little French Lawyer, ii. 3. 
Goerius (go-e'ri-us), . [NL. (Stephens, 1832), 
< Gr. yoEpd'f, mournful, distressful : see Goera.'] 
A genus of rove-beetles, of the family Staphy- 
linidce. 6. (or Oc;/jws)o(<>is is the singular beetle known 
as the devil's coach-horse in England. See cut of devil's 
coach-hone, under devil. 
goes (goz). The third person singular of the 
present indicative of the verb go. 
Goethian, Goethean (ge'ti-an, ge'tf-an), a. [< 
Goethe (see def.) + -tan, -ean.~\ Pertaining to 
or characteristic of the great German poet Jo- 
hann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). 
A true Goethian sentence, which it is difficult to render 
in English. 
Max Mutter, in Contemporary Rev., XLIX. 787. 
Went to Grove Hill, where we found Hitter, a most re- 
markable object, with a most Goethean countenance. 
Caroline Fox, Journal. 
goethite (ge'tit), n. [< Goethe (see Goethian) 
+ -tte 2 .] A hydrous oxid of iron, occurring in 
orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It is found 
with other ores of iron, for example hematite 
or limonite, as at the Lake Superior mines. 
goetic (go'e-tik), a. [< goety + -ic.] Of or per- 
taining to goety ; dark and evil in magic. 
