goetic 
The theurgic or benevolent magic, the goi'tic, or dark 
and evil necromancy. 
Bulwer, Last Days of Pompeii, p. 147. 
goety (go'e-ti), H. [Formerly also goetie ; < OF. 
</<ictie, the black art, magic, witchcraft, < Gr. 
yotfrcia, witchcraft, jugglery, < yotfremtv, be- 
witch, beguile, < jw (yor/r-), a wizard, a sorcer- 
er, an enchanter, a juggler, lit. a howler, waller, 
< yoav, wail, groan, weep, y&>f, wailing, mourn- 
ing.] Invocation of evil spirits ; black magic ; 
sorcery, in a bad sense. 
Porphyry and some others did distinguish these two 
sorts, so as to condemn indeed the grosser, which they 
called magick or goety. 
1 1 fi/l i/mell, Melampronoea (1681), p. 51. 
gofer (go'fer), ii. [Also gopher (cf. gopher in 
other senses) ; < F. gaufre, a waffle : see goffer, 
gopher.] A waffle. [Prov. Eng.] 
Here too I found a man selling gophers. Now, I do not 
know the American name for this vanishing-iuto-nothing 
sort of pastry, but I do know that there is one man in Lon- 
don who declares that he, and he alone in all the world, 
is aware of the secret of the gopher. 
P. Robinson, Sinners and Saints, p. 14. 
gofering-iron (go'fer-ing-i"ern), n. [Cf . goffer- 
ing-iron.'] A waffle-iron. 
goff 1 (gof), n. [Also guff, a fool, ME. only in 
adj. gofisshe (see goffish), < OF. goffe, a., dull, 
doltish, blockish, = Sp. gofo = It. goffo, a. awk- 
ward, stupid, dull, n. a blockhead, > G. dial. 
(Bay.) goffo, a blockhead; origin obscure.] A 
fool ; a foolish clown. [Prov. Eng.] 
goff 2 , n. Same as goaf. 
goff s t, n. An obsolete variant of golf. 
There are many games played with the ball that require 
the assistance of a club or bat, and probably the most an- 
cient among them is the pastime now distinguished by 
the name of goff. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 170. 
goffan (gof'an), n. In mining, same as coffin, 8. 
[Cornwall, Eug.] 
goffer (gofer), v. t. [Also written gauffer; < 
OF. gauffrer, crimp, deck with puffs, F. gau- 
frer, crimp, figure (cloth, velvet, etc.), < OF. 
goffre, also gaufre, gauffre, oldest form waufre, 
a wafer, a honeycomb ( > E. wafer), F. gaufre, 
a honeycomb, waffle: see gopher, wafer, and 
waffle.] 1. To plait, flute, or crimp (lace, etc.). 
" What's the matter with your ruff ?" asked Lady Betty ; 
"it looks very neat, I think." "Neat! . . . I'll have to 
get it all goffered over again." 
Miss Ferrier, Inheritance, xx. 
2. To raise in relief, especially for ornamental 
purposes, as thin metal, starched linen, or the 
like. Goffered edge, an indented decorative design on 
the edges of a book : an old fashion in bookbinding, ap- 
plied to gilded or silvered edges. Goffered elytra, in 
entom., elytra of certain beetles having very prominent 
longitudinal lines or curimt, which in many cases diverge 
from the base and converge toward the tip. 
goffert (gofer), n. [< goffer, v.} An ornamen- 
tal plaiting used for the frills and borders of 
women's caps, etc. Fairholt. 
goffering (gofer-ing), n. [Verbal n. of goffer, 
v.} Flutes, plaits, or crimps collectively. 
gpffering-iron (gof er-ing-J"ern), . A crimp- 
ing-iron used for plaiting or fluting frills, etc. 
goffering-press (gof 'er-ing-pres), n. A flut- 
ing-, plaiting-, or crimping-press, especially for 
imparting a crimped appearance to artificial 
leaves, flowers, etc. 
goffisht (gof ish), a. [ME. gofisshe, goofish; < 
goff 1 + -ish 1 .'] Foolish; stupid. Chaucer. 
go-freet (go'fre'), n. See the extract. 
Stamped wrappers for newspapers were made experi- 
mentally in London by Mr. Charles Whiting under the 
name at go-frees, in 1830. Encyc. Brit., XIX. 585. 
gOgH (gog), . [Chiefly in the phrase on gog, 
agog: see agog. The relation, if any, to W. 
gog, activity, = Ir. and Gael, gog, a nod, a slight 
motion (see goggle), is uncertain.] Activity; 
eager or impatient desire (to do something). 
Or, at the least, yt setts the harte on gogg. 
Gatcoigne, Oriefe of Joye. 
Nay, you have put me into such a gog of going, 
I would not stay for all the world. 
Fletcher, Wit without Money, Hi. 1. 
gog 2 (gog), n. [Origin obscure.] A bog. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
gog 3 (gog), n. A perversion of God, used in 
oaths, as Gogs passion, Gogs wounds, etc. [Obso- 
lete or provincial.] 
goget (goj'et), n. [Appar. the same, with dif- 
ferent (dim.) suffix, as gabion, ME. gojone, mod. 
gudgeon : see gudgeon 1 and goby."] A goby. 
goggle 1 (gog'l), v. ; pret. and pp. goggled, ppr. 
goggling. [Early mod. E. also gogle ; < ME. 
gogelen, look asquint, a freq. verb, of Celtic ori- 
gin : < Ir. and Gael, gog, a nod, a slight motion 
(=W.<70<7, activity: see go</ 1 ),gogach, wavering, 
nodding, etc., gogshuileach, goggle-eyed (swil, 
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the eye, look, glance), the verb being Ir. gogaim, 
I nod, gesticulate.] I. intrans. 1. To strain or 
roll the eyes in a squinting, blinking, or staring 
way ; roll about staringly, as the eyes. 
They gogle with then- eyes hither and thither. 
Holinghed, Descrip. of Ireland, i. 
Such sight have they that see with goggling eyes. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. 
You have eyes, 
Especially when you goggle thus, not much 
Unlike a Jew's, and yet some men might take 'em 
For Turk's. Shirley, Hyde Park, ill. 2. 
2f. To roll or shake about loosely. 
Robin did on the old mans hood, 
Itt goggled on his crowne. 
/.'"'.;./ Hood and the Old Man (Child's Ballads, V. 258). 
II. trans. To roll (the eyes) about blinkingly 
and staringly. 
He goggled his eyes, and groped in his money-pocket 
Walpole, Letters, III. 174. 
goggle 1 (gog'l), H. [< goggle 1 , v.} 1 . A strained, 
blinking, or squinting rolling of the eye. 
Others will have such a divided face between a devout 
goggle and an inviting glance, that the unnatural mixture 
will make the best look to be at that time ridiculous. 
Lord Halifax. 
2. pi. (a) An instrument worn like spectacles, 
with plain or colored glasses fixed in short tubes 
spreading at the base over the eyes, for their 
protection from cold, dust, sparks, etc., or from 
too great intensity of light, or so contrived as 
to direct the eyes straight forward, in order to 
cure squinting. 
I nearly came down a-top of a little spare man who sat 
breaking stones by the roadside. He stayed his hammer, 
and said, regarding me mysteriously through his dark gog- 
gles of wire, "Are you aware, sir, that you've been tres- 
passing!" Dickens, Uncommercial Traveller, xxii. 
(6) Spectacles. [Slang.] (c) Blinds for horses 
that are apt to take fright. 
gOggle 2 t (gog'l), v. t. [Appar. a var. of gobble, 
perhaps by mixture with guggle, gurgle.} To 
swallow; gobble. 
Ooularder [F.], to eat greedily, ... to ravine, goggle, 
glut up or swallow down huge morsels. Cotgrave. 
goggled (gog'ld), a. Prominent and squinting 
or staring, as the eye. 
Ugly faced, with long black hair, goggled eyes, wide- 
mouthed. Sir T. Herbert, Travels in Africa, p. 50. 
goggle-eye (gog'l-i), . [< ME. gogul-eye, a 
squint-eyed person. Cf. goggle-eyed.} 1. A 
prominent squinting or staring eye. 
Th' Ethnik's a-flre, and from his goggle eyes 
All drunk with rage and blood the Lightning flies. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Trophies. 
It [the sea-lion] has a great goggle-eye, the teeth 3 inches 
long, about the bigness of a man s thumb. 
Dampier, Voyages, an. 1683. 
The long, sallow visage, the goggle-eyes. 
Scott, Guy Mannering, ii. 
2. Squinting; strabismus. 3. The rock-bass, 
a centrarchid fish. 
goggle-eyed (gog'l-Id), a. [Formerly also gog- 
gle-eied; < ME. gogyleyid, gogiliged, squint- 
eyed (used once by Wyclif, improperly, to trans- 
late L. luscus, one-eyed, prob. with thought of 
L. codes, one-eyed); < goggle 1 + eyed.} Having 
prominent squinting or rolling eyes; squint- 
eyed. 
He was of personage tall and of body strong, . . . great 
and gogglc-ewd, whereby he saw so clearly as is incredible 
to report. Speed, The Romans, VI. iv. 6. 
And giddy doubt, and goggle-ey'd suspicion, 
And lumpish sorrow, and degen'rous fear, 
Are banish'd thence, and death's a stranger there. 
Quarles, Emblems, v. 14. 
Goggle-eyed jack, a name of the big-eyed scad, Trachu- 
ropd crumenophthalmus, a carangoid fish, resembling the 
common scad of Europe, having goggle-eyes. It is widely 
distributed in tropical seas, and is found on the Atlantic 
coast of the United States as far north as New England. 
Also called goggler. 
goggle-nose (gog'1-noz), n. The surf-scoter, a 
&viek.,(Edemiapergpiciliata; the spectacle-coot: 
so called from the pair of round black spots 
on the bill, resembling goggles. Also google- 
nose. G. Trumbull, 1888. [Maine, U. S.] 
goggler (gog'ler), n. [< goggle 1 + -er 1 .} One 
who or that which goggles; specifically, a fish, 
the goggle-eyed jack. 
goglet (gog'let), n. [Also guglet, guggkt; ap- 
par. < guggle + -et (perhaps simulating goblet), 
and so called with ref. to the gurgling sound of 
water poured through a narrow neck.] A glob- 
ular jar of porous earthenware, with a long 
neck, used as a water-cooler; also, the quan- 
tity contained in such a jar. 
I perfectly remember having said that it would not be 
amiss for General Carnac to have a man with a goglet of 
water ready to pour on his head whenever he should be- 
gin to grow warm in debate. Lord Clive, Fort William. 
goiter 
The flavor [of Zemzera waterj is a salt bitter. . . . For 
this reason Turks and other strangers prefer rain-water 
collected in cisterns and sold for five farthings a gugglet. 
R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 391. 
gogmagogt, >i. [In allusion to two large wood- 
eu statues in the Gildhall, London, called Gog 
and Magog (see Rev. xx. 8).] A big or strong 
person. [Humorous.] 
Be valiant, my little gogmagogs, I'll fence with all the 
justices in Hertfordshire. Merry Devil of Edmonton. 
gogmagogicalt,". [<gogmagog + -ic-al.} Large; 
monstrous. Nares. 
Be it to all men by these presents knowne, 
That lately to the world was plainely showne, 
In a huge volume gogmagogicall. 
John Taylor, Works (1630). 
gogol (go'gol), . [< Buss, gogolu = Little 
Russ. hohol, the goldeneye; of. OBulg. gogo- 
tati = Russ. gogotati, cackle, gaggle : see cackle, 
gaggle.} The Russian name of the golden-eyed 
duck, Clangula glaucion. 
go-harvest (gd'har^vest), n. [Cf. go-summer.} 
The season following harvest. [North. Eng.] 
Go-Harvest, the open weather between the end of har- 
vest and the snow or frost. 
Hampton, Medii jEvi Ealendarlum, II. 188 (glossary). 
going (go'ing), n. [< ME. goynge; verbaln. of 
go, v.} 1. The act of moving in any manner. 
Then comes the time, who lives to see 't, 
That going shall be us'd with feet 
Shot., Lear, Hi. 2. 
2. Departure. 
Thy going is not lonely ; with thee goes 
Thy husband. Milton, P. L., xi. 290. 
3t. Time of pregnancy; gestation. 
The time of death has a far greater latitude than that of 
our birth, most women coming, according to their reckon- 
ing, within the compass of a fortnight, that is the twentieth 
part of then* going. N. Grew, Cosmologia Sacra. 
4. Way; shape; behavior; deportment: used 
chiefly in the plural. 
And as thow by-gyledest godes ymage in goynge of an 
addre, 
So hath god by gyled ous alle in goynge of a wye [man]. 
Piers Plowman (C), xxi. 828. 
His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his 
goings. Job xxxiv. 21. 
They have seen thy goings, O God ; even the goings of 
my God, my King, in the sanctuary. Ps. Ixviii. 24. 
5. Condition of paths and roads for walking or 
driving. [U. S.I 
The going was bad, and the little mares could only drag 
the wagon at a walk ; so, though we drove during the day- 
light, it took us two days and a night to make the journey. 
The Century, XXXVI. 51. 
When they got within five miles of the place, the horse 
fell dead, . . . and they took another horse at a farm-house 
on the road. It was the spring of the year, and the </om7 
was dreadful. 5. O. Jewett, Gunner-Fishing. 
6. A right of pasturage for a beast on a com- 
mon. [Prov. Eng.] Going forth, (a) Extension ; 
continuation. Num. xxxiv. 4, 8. (b) An outlet. 
Mark well the entering in of the house, with every going 
forth of the sanctuary. Ezek. xliv. 5. 
(r) A starting; a departure: SB, the going forth ot the bouse 
of Israel. Going out. (a) The act or place of exit. 
And Moses wrote their goings out according to their 
journeys by the commandment of the Lord. 
Num. xxxlli. 2. 
The border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the 
river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea. 
Num. xxxiv. 5. 
(6) Expenditure; outlay. 
But when the year is at an end, 
Comparing what I get and spend, 
My goings out, and comings in, 
I cannot find I lose or win. Swijt, Riddles, iv. 
Goings-on, behavior ; actions ; conduct : used (like carry- 
ings-on) mostly in a depreciative sense. [Colloq.] 
The family did not, from his usual goings-on, expect him 
back again for many weeks. 
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, v. 
Pretty place it must be where they don't admit women. 
Nice goings-on, I dare say, Mr. Caudle. 
D. Jerrold, Caudle Lectures. 
going-barrel (go'ing-bar'el), n. A barrel con- 
taining the mainspring of a watch, and com- 
municating, by gearing on its outer edge, the 
movement of the spring to the works. 
going-fusee (go'ing-fu-ze*), n. A mechanical 
device for keeping in motion watches and 
spring-clocks while being wound. See going- 
barrel, going-wheel. 
going-wheel (go'ing-hwel), n. An arrange- 
ment invented by Huyghens, which keeps in 
motion a clock actuated by a weight while be- 
ing wound. See going-barrel, going-fusee. 
goiter, goitre (goi'ter), . [< F. goitre, goiter, < 
L. guttur, the throat: see guttural.} Inpathol., 
a morbid enlargement of the thyroid gland on 
the front part and side or sides of the neck; 
Struma. It is due to increase In the size and number 
