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D. S. Gloss. C. 6 ; Midland Counties, E. D. S. Gloss, B. 5 ; Nhamp. Nth. 
Gloss.; Sal. ‘There is a place at Messinghain (Line.) called the 
Gossacres.’ E. D. S. Gloss. C. 6. Sternh. gives gossuk as a Nhamp. 
word for ‘ a billhook for cutting goss or furze.’ ^ The linnet is known 
in the same county as goss linnet, from ‘ its habit of building its nest 
in a gorse or furze-bush ; ’ and ‘ a fox-cover is often called a goss- 
cover.’ Nth. Gloss. The name may have been applied in Shakespeare’s 
time to some other prickly shrub : he speaks of — 
‘ Toothed briars, sharp furzes, prickly goss and thorns.’ 
Tempest, Act iv. sc. 1. 
(2) Phragmites communis, Trin. — Cornw. N. & Q,., I. x. 480. 
Gost. Ulex europoeus, L. — Heref. E. D. S. Gloss. B. 12; Sal. 
(Shrewsbury). 
Go-to-bed-at-noon. Tragopogon pratense, — Lyte, Hal. E. Anglia, 
Forby ; Midland Counties, Cornhill Mag. July, 1865 ; Warm. Pulman. 
‘It shutteth it selfe at twelve of the clocke,^ and sheweth not his 
face open untill the next daies sunne do make it flower anew, where- 
fore it was called Oo to bed at noond Ger. 595 (in description of T. 
porrifolius, L.). 
Goud. ‘The plant woad.’ Wr. Isatis tinctoria, L., or possibly 
Reseda Luteola, L. 
Goudy-locks. See Goldylocks (3). 
Goulans. See Gowlans. 
Gould, White. See Gold, White. 
Goule. Myrica Gale, L. — With. ed. ii. 
Goals. Chrysanthemum segetum, L. — Midland Counties (Eural 
Cyclopaedia). 
Gourlins. The tubers of Bunium flexuosum, With. — Scotl. Jamieson. 
Gout Ivy. Ajuga Charncepitys,!^. — ‘ In Lat. /ya Prior, 
p. 95. But we do not find the English name elsewhere. 
Goutweed. PEgopodium Podagraria, L. — With. ed. ii. ‘ Herb 
Gerard with his rootes stamped, and laid upon members that are 
troubled or vexed with the gout, swageth the paine, and taketh away 
the swelling and inflammation thereof, which occasioned the Germaines 
to give it the name Podagraria, bicause of his vertues in curing the 
gout.’ Ger. 849. One of its French names is herbe aux goutteux. 
Gout-wort. JEgopodium Podagraria, L. — Ger., Park. Theatr. From 
the old Lat. name Podagraria. 
Gow. ‘ Wild myrtle. Florio, p. 4.’ Hal. Wr. Myrica Gale, L. — 
See Gold. 
Gowan. ‘The terms goulon, goulion, goulans, gulans, gowlons, 
gollande, guild, gild, gules, and gowan, as applied to plants, are 
obviously related, and appear to derive their origin from the Anglo- 
Saxon gold, or if we wish to consult a more remote parentage, from tlio 
Snio-Gothic gul, gol, yellow.’ Transactions of Berwicksh. Naturalist’s 
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