Goodenia 
Goodenia (gu-de'ni-a), n. [NL., named after 
Samuel Goodenough, Bishop of Exeter ami im 
amateur botanist (1743-1827).] A genus of 
Australian herbs and shrubs, type of the order 
Goodeniaceit. There are about 70 species. 
Goodeniaceae (gu-de-ni-a'se-e), . pi. [NL., < 
Goodenia + -ttcea:] An order of gamopetalous 
exogens, closely allied to the Lobeliacea', and 
belonging with few exceptions to Australia and 
Oceanica. There are 12 genera and about 200 species, 
herbaceous or rarely shrubby. The leaves and the fruit 
of some species are eaten, and the pith of Sccevola Kaeniyii 
furnishes the rice-paper of the Malay archipelago. 
Goodenoveae (giid-e-no've-e), . pi. [NL.] 
Same as Goodeniaceee. 
good-even, good-evening (gud-e'vn, -ev'ning), 
. See good day, ijood evening, etc., under good. 
good-faced (gud'fast), a. Pretty. 
Clo. Shall I bring thee on the way? 
Aut. No, good-faced sir ; no, sweet sir. 
Shak., W. T., iv. 2. 
good-fellow (gud'fel'6), n. 1. A boon compan- 
ion; a jolly fellow; a reveler. [Now properly 
written as two words. See fellow, 5.] 
It was well known that Sir Roger had been a Ooodfellme 
in his youth. Ascham, Scholemaster, p. 00. 
Lop. I assure you, a close fellow : 
Both close and scraping, and that till- the bags, sir. 
Bar. A notable guoil-fellmit too. 
Fletcher, Spanish Curate, Iv. 5. 
2f. A thief. [Old cant.] 
Goodffllows be thieves. Heywood, Edw. IV. 
good-for-little (gud'f$r-lit"l), a. Of little ac- 
count or value. 
The little words in the republic of letters are most sig- 
nificant. The trisyllables, and the ramblers of syllables 
more than three, are but the good-/ur-little magnates. 
Kiehardson, Clarissa Harlowe, IV. 298. 
good-for-nothing (gud'f9r-nuth"ing), a. and w. 
1. n. Of no value or use ; worthless; shiftless; 
idle. 
I have not a guest to-day, nor any besides my own fami- 
ly, and you good-for-nothing ones. 
A. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, p. 187. 
A good-for-nothing fellow ! I have no patience with him. 
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, MX. 
II. n. An idle, worthless person. 
But an unquestionable injury is done by agencies which 
undertake in a wholesale way to foster good far-nothings. 
H. Spencer, Study of Sociol., p. 346. 
good-for-nqthingness (gud'fr-nuth"iug-nes), 
n. Idle shiftlessness ; uselessness. 
These poor families . . . have not kept such elaborate 
records of their good-fur-nothinyners. 
Richardson, Pamela, II. 54. 
good-Henry (giid'hen'ri), w. Same as good- 
King-Henry. 
good-humored (gud'hu'mord), a. 1. Charac- 
terized by good humor ; of a cheerful, tranquil, 
or unruffled disposition or temper; actuated by 
good or friendly feeling. 
'I is impossible that an honest and good-humoured man 
should be a schismatic or heretic. 
Shaftesbury, Misc. Reflections, ii. 3. 
I want you to be in a charming sweet temper at this 
moment. Do be good-humoured now, and let me have two 
hundred pounds, will you ? 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, Hi. 1. 
2. Uttered or done in a pleasant, kindly way, 
without malice or ill nature : as, a good-humored 
remark. 
gOOd-hnmoredly (gud'hu'mord-li), adr. In a 
good-humored manner ; in a pleasant, cheerful 
way. 
goodie, a. See goody'*. 
goodiness (gud'i-nes), n. The quality of being 
"goody" or priggish; canting morality or pi- 
ety. 
The last, although tinged with something like ffoodine**, 
... is not so obtrusive as usual in books intended to im- 
prove children. Athenteum, Jan. 7, 1888, p. 20. 
gOOding (gud'iug), . [< good + -in*/ 1 .] A 
mode of asking alms formerly in use in Eng- 
land, and in one form still continued. See the 
first extract. 
To go a-gooding is a custom observed In several parts of 
England on St. Thomas's day, by women only, who ask alms, 
and in return for them wish all that is good, such as a 
happy new -year, A-c.. to their benefactors, sometimes pre- 
senting them also with sprigs of evergreens. In some parts 
of Surrey and Kent the custom is thus kept up ; and in 
other counties gooding is the word, among the poor, for 
collecting before Christmas what may enable them to keep 
the festival. Todd. 
Thanksgiving ... is not sanctified or squandered like 
Merry Christmas in the Old World : It has no gooding, 
candles, clog, carol, box, or hobby-horse. 
S. Jttdd, Margaret, I. 10. 
goodish (gud'ish), a. [<</ood + -isfti.] Pretty 
good ; of fair quality, amount, or degree ; tof- 
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erable: as, goorlMi fruit: gmiilixli conduct; a 
!/in>ilinli distance. 
I fetched a goodish compass round by the way of the 
Cloven Itocks. Ii. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, Iviii. 
goodjeret, . See goujccrs. 
good-King-Henry, good-King-Harry (gud'- 
king-hen'ri, -har'i), . The Chenopocttvm lio- 
iiiis-fli-nricug, a European plant (also natural- 
ized in the United States) with halbert-dtaped 
leaves, which have a mucilaginous saline taste 
and are used as a pot-herb. Also called (/"</- 
Henry. 
goodlesst, a. [ME. godles, poor, without goods 
or property, < AS. ijodleds, without good, mis- 
erable, < god, n., good, + -leas, -less.] Without 
goods or property ; destitute. 
Gredy is the godles. Proverbs of Hendyng, L 117. 
goodlicht, a. A Middle English form of goodly. 
('In nicer. 
goodliheadt, [< ME. goodlihede, goodelyliede ; 
< goodly + -head.] Goodliness; beauty. 
Of trouthe ground, myrour of gooilleyhedn. 
Chaucer, Troilus, II. 842. 
So far as May doth other months exceed, 
So far in virtue and in goodlihead 
Above all other nymphs lanthe bears the meed. 
Thomson, Hymn to May. 
goodliness (gud'li-nes), w. If. Goodness. 
To communicate therefore (not to encrease or receiue) 
his goodlinessf, he created the World. 
Purchax, Pilgrimage, p. 14. 
2. Goodly quality or condition; beauty of form : 
pleasing grace ; elegance. 
Her goodline was full of harmony to his eyes. 
Sir P. Sidney. 
What travail and cost was bestowed that the goodliness 
of the temple might be a spectacle of admiration to all 
the world ! Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 15. 
goodly (gud'li), a. [< ME. goodly, goodlich, god- 
licli, < AS. godlic (= OS. godlik = OPries. godlik 
= OHG. guotlilt, kuotilili, guollih, MHG. giietlich 
= Icel. godhligr), good, goodly, < god, good: see 
good and -fy 1 .] 1. Good-looking; of fair pro- 
portions or fine appearance ; graceful ; well-fa- 
vored ; well formed or developed : as, a goodly 
person ; goodly raiment. 
An evil soul, producing holy witness, 
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, 
A goodly apple rotten at the heart. 
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! 
Shak., M. of V., 1. 8. 
O but they are a gudtlie pair ! 
True lovers an ye be. 
Clerk Saunders (Child s Ballads, II. 322). 
The King of Norway sent him (King Atlielstan] af/owHy 
Ship with a gilt Stern. Baker, Chronicles, p. 10. 
2. Pleasant; agreeable; desirable. 
The spreading branches made a goodly show, 
And full of opening blooms was every bough. 
Driiden, Flower and Leaf, 1. 105. 
This spacious plot 
For pleasure made, a goodly spot. 
Wordtworth, White Doe of Kylstone, iv. 
3. Considerable ; rather large or great : as, a 
goodly number. 
And here, from gracious England, have I offer 
Of goodly thousands. Shak., Macbeth, iv. 3. 
We leave it [philosophy] in possession of quite as goodly 
a realm as that in which our metaphysical predecessors 
would fain have established it. 
J. Fiike, Cosmic Philos., I. 27. 
goodlyt (gud'li), adv. [< ME. goodly, godly, 
godli, gudely, godlictte (= OHG. f/notliclio, MHG. 
guotliclie, giietliclic) ; from the adj. : see goodly, 
n.] 1. In a good manner; gracefully; excel- 
lently; kindly. 
If fehou be so bold as alle burneg tellen, 
Thou wyl grant me godly the gomen that I ask, bi ryjt. 
Sir Gawaync and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 272. 
It was her guise all Straungers goodly so to greet. 
Spenner, F. Q., II. xii. 56. 
2. Well ; properly. 
Love, agenis the whiche that no man may 
Ne oghte ek, goodly maken resistence. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 990. 
To her guestes doth bounteous banket dight, 
Attempred goodly well for health and for delight. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. xl. 2. 
3. Conveniently. 
Thomas earl of Kent, 1397, willed his body to be buried 
as soon as it goodlich may in the abbey of Brune. 
Test. Vetust., p. 139. (Naree.) 
goodman (gud'man or, in sense 1, gud'man'), 
n. ; pi. goodmen (-men). [Common in E. dial, 
use, also contr. gomman (cf. gonimer for good- 
mother, gammer, gaffer^, for grandmother, g'rand- 
father), < ME. godeman (tr. L. paterfamilias'); 
< good + man; lit. the worthy or excellent 
man, the adj. having become conventional 
and merged with the noun. The supposition 
good-night 
that goodwill! is an accom. of AS. gumman, a 
man (a once-occurring poet, word, < gitma, a 
man, = L. homo, + man, a man, L. t'ir), is quite 
groundless. Cf. goodirij'c.'] 1. The man of the 
house; master; husband; head of a family. 
[Now obsolete, or only in rustic use as two 
words. ] 
If the goodman of the house had known in what watch 
the thief would come, he would have watched, and would 
not have suffered his house to be broken up. 
Mat. xxiv. 43. 
Bell my wife she loves not strife, 
Yet she will lead me if she can, 
And oft, to live a quiet life, 
I am forced to yield, though Ime good-man. 
Take thy Old Cloak about Thee. 
How can her old Good-man 
With Honour take her back again ? 
Prior, Alma, ii. 
2. A familiar appellation of civility; a term of 
respect, frequently used to or of a person be- 
fore his surname : nearly equivalent to Mr. or 
sometimes to gaffer. It was sometimes used 
ironically. [Obsolescent.] 
With you, goodman boy, if you please. 
Shak., Lear, ii. 2. 
Goodman coxcomb the citizen, who would you speak 
withal 1 D. Jonson, Cynthia 8 Bevels, v. 2. 
Our neighbor Cole and goodman Newton have been sick, 
but somewhat amended again. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 422. 
good-minded (gud'mln'ded), a. Amiable ; well- 
meaning. [Bare.] 
Alas, good-minded prince, you know not these things. 
Beau, and Fl., Philaster.li. 4. 
good-morning (gud'mor'ning), n. See good day, 
good morning, etc., under good. 
good-morrow (gud'mor'6), n. [In Elizabethan 
E. ; the same as good-morning, q. v.] 1. Same 
as good-morning, good morning. 2f. A com- 
monplace compliment ; an empty phrase of 
courtesy. 
After this saiyng, the commenaltie of Athenes, which 
had afore condemned him, were sodainly stricken againe 
in loue with hym, and saied that he was an honest man 
again and loued the citee, and many gaie good morowes. 
Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 376. 
She spoke of the domesticall kind of captivities and 
drudgeries that women are put unto, with many such good 
morrows. titmcll, Parly of Beasts, p. 67. 
good-natured (gud'na'turd), a. Having a good 
disposition ; naturally mild in temper ; easily 
acquiescent. 
A man who is commonly called good natured is hardly 
to be thanked for anything he does, because half that is 
acted about him is done rather by sufferance than appro- 
bation. Taller, No. 76. 
In that same village . . . there lived many years since 
... a simple good-natured fellow, of the name of Rip 
Van Winkle. Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 46. 
The most good-natured host began to repent of his ea- 
gerness to serve a man of genius in distress when he heard 
his guest roaring for fresh punch at five o clock in the 
morning. Macaulay, Boswell's Johnson. 
= Syn. Gracious, Kind, etc. See benignant. 
good-naturedly (gud'na'turd-li), adv. In a 
good-natured manner; with good nature or do- 
cility. 
good-naturedness (gud'na'turd-nes), n. The 
state or quality of being good-natured; good 
temper. Talfourd. 
goodness (gud'ues), w. [< ME. goodnesse, god- 
nesse, < AS. godnes (= OHG. "guotnassi, cotnas- 
si, MHG. guotnisse), < god, good : see good and 
-ness.] I . The state or quality of being good, in 
any sense ; excellence ; purity ; virtue ; grace ; 
benevolence. 
Wherof be non lyke in any other pties, nether in qua- 
tyte, goodnes, ne plente, and specially in aoodnes of wyne. 
Sir Ji. Guyl/orde, Pylgrymage, p. 47. 
They [certain fishes) seeme the same, both in fashion 
and guodnesse. Capt. John Smith, Works, II. 189. 
The only ultimate Good, or End in itself, must be .'/</ 
nea or Excellence of Conscious Life. 
a. Sidgwick, Methods of Ethics, p. 869. 
2. [Orig. with ref. to the divine Goodness 
that is, God.] In exclamatory use, a term of 
emphasis; "gracious": as, my goodness! no; 
for goodness 1 sake, tell me what it is. [Colloq.] 
For goodness' sake, consider what you do. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., iii. 1. 
Goodness knows, I could, if I liked, be serious. 
Thackeray. 
Moral goodness, the excellence of a being who obeys 
the moral law. Natural goodness, the excellence of a 
thing which satisfies the reasonable desires of man. 
good-night (gud'nif), . See good day, good 
night, etc., under #ood. 
He ... sung those tunes to the over-scutched huswives 
that he heard the carmen whistle, and sware they were 
his fancies, or his good-tiightg. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iii. 2. 
