good 
Good day, good evening (good event, good e'ent, 
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good-den 
other expressions, good speed, good luck, etc., at parting; 
the original forms being Have (that is, I wish that you 
may have), or / msh you, 1 aid you, or God gioe you a 
good day, evening, etc. 
The Admiral he bid god day, 
And thonkede Clariz that faire may. 
King Horn(E. E. T. S.), p. 73. 
Good even ! 
Friar, where is the provost? 
Shak., M. for M., iv. 3. 
Pack, clouds, away, and welcome, day ; 
With night we banish sorrow ; 
Sweet air, blow soft ; mount, lark, aloft, 
To give my love good-morrow. 
Ileywood, Song. 
Nor could they humour the custom of good night, good 
morrow, good speed; for they knew the night was good, 
and the day was good, without wishing of either. 
fenn, Rise and Progress of Quakers, ii. 
Good delivery, earth, faith, fellowship, Friday. See 
the nouns. Good folk, neighbors, people, fairies or 
elves : a euphemism in rustic superstition. [Prov. Eng. 
and Scotch. ] 
For banting and repairing with the gude neighbours, 
and queene of Elflaud, ... as she had contest. 
Trial of Alison Pearson, an. 1588. 
Good graces. See^roce. Good gracious. See gracious. 
Good humor. See humor. Good lack. [Appar. a va- 
riation of good Lord, assimilated to alack. The syllable 
lack has been supposed to stand for lakin, a contraction 
of ladykin, dim. of lady, with ref. to the Virgin Mary, called 
" Our lady," who was often invoked in oaths ; but the ex- 
pression 'good lady' does not seem to have been used 
with ref. to her.] An exclamation implying wonder, sur- 
prise, or pity. [Archaic.] 
Moses. 'Twas not to be done, indeed, Mr. Trip. 
Trip. Good lack, you surprise me ! 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, ill. 2. 
Ye Gods, good lack, is it so dull in Heaven, 
That ye come pleasuring to Thok's iron wood? 
M. Arnold, Balder Dead. 
Good nature, sense. See the nouns. Good speed, 
(a) Good success ; prosperity. (6) Considerable rapidity : 
used elliptically as an adverb. Good temper, Tem- 
plar, etc. See the nouns. In good certalnt, earnest, 
faith, sooth, time, etc. See the nouns. One's good 
dayst, one's life. Nares. 
Wasting her goodly hew in heavie teares, 
And her good dayes in dolorous disgrace. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. vii. 38. 
Occidi, I am undone : my joy is past to this world : my 
good daies are spent : I am at deaths dore. 
Terence in English (1614). 
The Good Shepherd. See shepherd. To be as good as 
one's word, to do all that was promised ; to fun! an en- 
gagement literally. 
" Now, Johnie, be as good as your word." 
Johnie Cope (Child's Ballads, VII. 274). 
I promised to call upon him . . . when I should pass 
Shekh Ammer, which I now accordingly did ; and by the 
reception I met with, I found they did not expect I would 
ever have been as good as my word. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 143. 
To be good company, to get a good offing, to keep 
good hours, to keep a good house, to make a good 
board, etc. See the nouns. To make good, (a) To 
perform ; fulfil : as, to make good one's word or promise. 
That I may soon make good 
What I have said, Bianca, get you in. 
Shak., T. of the S., L 1. 
(6) To confirm or establish ; prove ; verify : as, to make 
good a charge or an accusation. 
Thou that hadst the name 
Of virtuous given thee, and made good the same 
Even from thy cradle. 
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, iv. 4. 
(c) To provide or supply ; make up : as, I will make good 
what is wanting. 
The Councell in England . . . appointed a hundred 
men should at the Companies charge be allotted and pro- 
uided to serue and attend the Gouernour during the time 
of his gouernment, which number he was to make good 
at his departure. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 40. 
(d) To supply an equivalent for ; make up for : as, if you 
suffer loss, I will make it good to you. 
That alle the costages that be mad aboute hym be mad 
good of the box, sif he were nat of power to paie therfore 
hymself. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 7. 
(e) To maintain ; defend ; preserve intact. 
I'll either die or I'll make good the place. Dryden. 
[He] commanded Lieutenant Percie, Master West, and 
the rest to make good the house. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 215. 
(/) To carry into effect ; succeed in making or effecting : 
as, to make good a retreat. To make good cheert. See 
cheerl. To stand good, to be or remain firm or valid; 
be as sure or binding as at first : as, his word or promise 
stands good. To think good, to see good, to think or 
believe it to be good or proper ; be willing ; think it to 
be expedient. 
If ye think good, give me my price. Zech. xi. 12. 
To wield a good baton. See baton. With a good 
grace. See grace. 
II. n. 1. That which is desirable, or is an ob- 
ject of desire. 
It is a most unjust ambition to desire to engross the It was assumed . . . that thn wicked are successful, and 
mercies of the Almighty, not to be content with the goods the yowl arc miserable. O. "'. Uolmes, Emerson, v. 
of mind without a possession of those of body or fortune. 
Sir T. Browne, Eeligio Medici, L 18. 
Cherished peaceful days 
For their own sakes, as mortal life's chief good, 
And only reasonable felicity. 
Wordsworth, Excursion, iii. 
Our notion of Ultimate Good, at the realization of which 
it is evidently reasonable to aim, must include the Good 
of every one on the same ground that it includes that of 
any one. U. Sidgwick, Methods of Ethics, p. SCO. 
2. That which has worth or desirable qualities, 
and is or may be made advantageous or bene- 
ficial; whatever is adapted and conduces to 
happiness, advantage, benefit, or profit; that 
which contributes to pleasure, or is a source of 
satisfaction ; a good thing, state, or condition. 
There be many that say, Who will shew us any good t 
Ps. iv. 6. 
To color goods t. 
etc. See property. 
See cotor. = Syn. B. Effects, Chattels, 
good (gud),"adf . [< ME. goode = D. goed = G. 
</ut = Dan. Sw. tjodt, adv. ; from the adj. The 
reg. adv. of yood is well: see welP.~] Well. 
Dwelleth with us while you goode list in Troye. 
Chaucer, Troilus, i. 119. 
As good, as well. 
As good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book. 
Milton, Areopagitica, p. 6. 
The pilot must intend some port before he steers his 
course, or he had as good leave his vessel to the direction 
of the winds and the government of the waves. 
South, Sermons. 
I will provide for you, as I would have done before this, 
but that I thought (the charges of sending and hazard con- 
sidered) you were as good provide . . . [the clothes] there. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 407. 
To deny them that good which they, being all Freemen, good (gud), inter}. That is good: an elliptical 
ly and call for, is an arrogance and iniquity exclamation of satisfaction or commendation. 
Sir Aylmer half forgot his lazy smile 
Of patron. "Good ! my lady's kinsman ! good!" 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
seek earnestly ai_ . 
beyond imagination rude and unreasonable. 
Milton, Eikonoklastes, vi. 
As far as the distant provinces were concerned, it is 
probable that the imperial system was on the whole a good. 
Lecky, Europ. Morals, I. 281. good (gud), v. t. [< ME. goden, < AS. godian, 
3. Advantage; benefit; profit; satisfaction: intr. be or become good, improve, tr. make good, 
opposed to evil, liarm, etc. : as, it does me good improve, enrich, < god, good: see good, a. In 
laugh; it will do no good; hence, def. 2, Sc. also guid, < Sw. goda (= Dan. gjode), 
to hear you , _ . 
welfare; well-being; advancement of interest 
or happiness : as, to labor for the common good. 
[In old English sometimes used in the plural.] 
By richesses ther comen many goodes. 
Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus. 
Hee meanes no good to either Independent or Presby- 
terian. Milton, Eikonoklastes, xxvi. 
He hoped it would be for her good. 
The Sufolk Miracle (Child's Ballads, I. 220). 
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. 
Lowell, Democracy. 
4f. A personal possession ; a thing, or things 
collectively, belonging to one. 
Somtym his good is drenched in the see. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 1. 396. 
When the gode man sye his gode go to so grete myschef, 
he gan to be angry, and seide a worde of grete ire, for he 
yaf to the deuell all the remenant that was lefte. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 4. 
He that was lately drench'd in Danae's show'r 
Is master now of neither good nor trust. 
Quarles, Emblems, i. 9. 
5. pi. Movable effects or personal chattels; 
manure, dung, appar. lit. make good, i. e., bet- 
ter, improve, < god, good.] If. To make good. 
When Platoes tale was done, then Tullie prest in place : 
Whose filed tongue with sugred talke would good a simple 
case. Turberaille, An Answere in Disprayse of Wit. 
Greatness not goaded with grace is like a beacon upon a 
high hill. Kev. T. Adams, Sermons, I. 151. 
2. To manure. [Old Eng. and Scotch.] 
The husbandman looks not for a crop in the wild desart ; 
but where he hath goaded and plowed, and eared, and 
sown, why should he not look for a harvest? 
Bp. Hall, Remains, p. 121. 
good-bodiedt (gud'bod"id), a. Having a good 
figure. Davies. 
Saw all my family up, and my father and sister, who is 
a pretty nood-oi>dietl woman, and not over thick. 
Pepys, Diary, May 31, 1666. 
good-brother (gud'bruth"er), n. A brother-in- 
law. [Scotch.] 
good-by, good-bye (gud-bi'), interj. [A corrup- 
tion (with change of God- to good-, by confusion 
with good day, good den, etc.) of an Elizabeth- 
articles of portable property, as distinguished an E. formula variously printed Godby, God- 
from money, lands, buildings, ships, rights in by'e, Godbwy, God b'w'y, God bwy yee, God buy 
action, etc.: as, household goods. you, God be wi' you, God be with you, the last 
Also alle the Oodes of the Lond ben comoun, Comes and being the full formula of which the preceding 
alle other thinges. Mandeville, Travels, p. 179. are contractions.] God be with you: origi- 
All thy gooas are confiscate. Shak., M. of V., iv. 1. nally a pious form of valediction, used in its full 
A book which was the most valuable of all his goods and significance, but no w a mere conventional f or- 
-""' .. Rnn, a7 mula without meaning, used at parting. 
chattels. Southey, Bunyan, p. 37. 
Specifically 6. pi. (a) Articles of trade; com- 
modities ; wares ; merchandise. 
Her Majesty, when the goods of our English merchants 
were attacked by the Duke of Alva, arrested likewise the 
goods of the Low Dutch here in England. Raleigh, Essays. 
They had much adoe to have their goods delivered, for 
some of them were chainged, as bread & pease. 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 293. 
(6) A piece of dry-goods ; a textile fabric ; cloth 
of any kind: as, will these goods (that is, this 
piece of goods) wash? [CoUoq.] 7. A full end- 
ing or conclusion; a closing act; a finality: 
only in the phrase for good, or for good and all. 
No, no, no, no, no kissing at all ; 
Good-bye, proud world ! I'm going home : 
Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine. 
Emerson, Good-Bye. 
And so, sir sheriff and priest, good-bye ! 
Whittier, The Exiles. 
= Syn. Adieu, Farewell, etc. See adieu. 
good-by, good-bye (giid-bl' ), n. and a. [< good- 
by, interj.'] I. n. A farewell: as, to say or bid 
good-by ; to utter a hearty good-by ; when the 
good-bys were said. 
II. a. Valedictory; parting. 
The old Turcoman thereupon gave a shrug and a grunt, 
made a sullen good-by salutation, and left us. 
B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 288. 
good-conditioned (gud'kon-dish // pnd), a. Be- 
Now though this was exceeding kind in her, yet, as my S in a good state ; having good qualities or 
good woman said to her, unless she resolved to keep me favorable symptoms. 
for good and all, she would do the little gentlewoman good-day (gud-da'), . 1. A form of salutation, 
more harm than good. _ __ _ See </oo<J day, etc., under <jroorf. 2t. Same as 
Defoe, Fortunes of Moll Flanders (1722). 
godendag. 
8 3 ' good-deedt (gud-ded'), adv. 
Encyc. Brit., XXII. 177. good truth; indeed. 
In very deed; in 
Yet, good deed, Lepntes 
I love thee n. otajaro theclo <* behind 
What lady she her lord. Shak., W. T., L 2. 
. See alien.- Allotment Of goods. See al- 
:- Collation of goods. See>r5.-Cominon 
good. See common.- Community Of goods. See com- 
mumty.-Contraband goods, debentured goods. See gooc l.dent feud-den'), n. [In Elizabethan E. 
the adjectives.- Dry goods. See dry-goods.-TJweeSB Of &""," J " Br p fi f p i vaiinm.lv nrintad nood den 
goods See duress. External good, a good situated (onakspere, etc.; variously pri len, 
without the person of th* object for whom it is a good, as good den, gooden, godden, or m fuller form, give 
wealth and friends. Fancy goods, first good, etc. See y OU good den, God ye good den, God (give) you good 
the adjectives.- For any goodt, for any reward ; on any ^ contr. Godgigoden, Godigeden ; good den be- 
ing a corruption of good e'en, also much in use, 
a contr. of good even.'} A contraction of good 
even (good e'en), a kind wish or salutation. See 
good day, etc., under good. 
account. 
Sir Thomas Moore, hearing one tell a monstrous lie, said, 
I would not for any good heare him say his creed, lest it 
should seeme a lie. Copley, Wits, Fits, and Fancies (1614). 
For good. Seedef. 7. God's good*. See godi. Goods 
and chattels, or goods, wares, and merchandise, a 
phrase commonly used to indicate property other than real 
estate. Gray goods. Same as gray cotton (which see, 
under cotton'). Green goods, counterfeit greenbacks. 
Internal good, a good residing either in the soul or in 
the body of the object. Marking of goods. See mark- 
ing. Measurement goods. See measurement. The 
good, good or virtuous persons in general. 
Nur. God ye good morrow, gentlemen. 
Mer. God ye good den, fair gentlewoman. 
Nur. Is it good den 3 
Mer. Tis no less, I tell you. Shak., B, and J., it 4. 
We thank you, gentle boy. Gooden ! 
We must to our flocks agen. 
Shirley, Love Tricks, iv. 2. 
