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turns thereby as on hinges. There are se- 
veral googings on a ship’s posts and rudder, 
according to her size, and on these the rud- 
der is supported and traverses. 
GOGLE, in law books, signifies a breach 
in a sea-bank, or wall. 
GOOSE. See Anas. 
Goose berry. See Rises. 
Goose neck, in a ship, a piece of iron 
fixed on the end of the tiller, to which the 
laniard of the whip-staff, or the wheel rope 
conies for steering the ship. 
Goose wing, in the sea-language. When 
a ship sails before, or with, a quarter-wind 
on a fresh gale, to make the more haste, 
they launch out a boom, and sail on the 
lee-side ; and a sail so fitted, is called a 
goose-wing. 
GORDIUS, in natural history, hair-worm, 
a genus of the Vermes Intestina class and 
order. Body round, filiform, equal, smooth. 
There are five species. G. aquaticus is 
from four to six inches iong, of a pale brown 
colour, but darker at the extremities : it is 
found in stagnant waters, and twists itself 
into various contortions and knots, and it is 
said that if it is handled without caution, 
it will inflict a bite that occasions the whit- 
low. G. filum is found in the bark of 
old wooden water-pipes. G. lacteus is 
white and opaque ; found in stagnant wa- 
ters ; wdien touched it contracts itself in 
a moment, and afterwards expands as sud- 
denly. 
GORDONIA, in botany, loblolly-bay, so 
called from Mr. James Gordon, an eminent 
nursery man, a genus of the Monadelphia 
Polyandria class and order. Natural order 
of Columnifera?. Malvaceae, Jussieu. Es- 
sential character : calyx five-leaved ; petals 
five, united at the base by means of the 
nectary ; filament inserted into the necta- 
ry ; capsule superior, five-celled ; seeds 
winged. There are three species. 
GORE, in heraldry, one of the abate- 
ments, which, according to Gnillitn, de- 
notes a coward. It is a figure consisting of 
two arch lines drawn one from the sinister 
chief, and the other from the sinister base, 
both meeting in an acute angle in the mid- 
dle of the fess point. 
GOREING, in the sea-language, sloping. 
A sail is cut goreing, when it is cut sloping 
by degrees, and is broader at the clue, than 
at the earing, as all top-sails and top-gallant 
sails are. 
Gorge, in fortification, the entrance of 
the platform of any work. 
GOS 
GORGED, in heraldry, the bearing of a 
crown, coronet, or the like, about the neck 
of a hon,n swan, &c. and in that case it is 
said, the lion or cygnet is gorged with a 
ducal coronet, &c. Gorged is also used 
when the gorge, or neck of a peacock, 
swan, or the like bird, is of a different co- 
lour or metal from the rest. 
GORGONIA, in natural history, a genus 
of the Vermes Zoopbyta class and order. 
Animal growing in the form of a plant ; 
stem coriaceous, corky, woody, horny, or 
bony, composed of glassy fibres, or like 
stone, striate, tapering, dilated at the base, 
covered with a vascular or cellular flesh or 
bark, and becoming spongy and triable when 
dry ; mouths or florets covering the surface of 
the stem and polype bearing. There are about 
forty species, of which the following are found 
in the European seas, viz. G, placomns ; 
branching both ways, with flexuous, rarely 
anastomosing branches, covered with conic 
florets. The stem is erect, the branches 
flatfish, bending towards each other; florets 
surrounded at the top with small spines. 
G. anceps : slightly branched, with com, 
pressed stem and branches, each with rows 
of florets along both margins. It inhabits 
the American and British coasts, nearly 
two feet high ; flesh calcareous ; bone of 
horny leather y texture ; when recent of a 
fine violet colour, but when dry, yellowish 
or white. G. flabellum, Venus’s fan : reticu- 
late with the branches compressed on the 
inner side ; bark yellow or purplish ; bone 
black and horny. It inhabits most seas, 
and is often several feet high, and expanded 
into a large surface ; trunk and branches 
pinnate, and by means of the smaller 
branches blending together, forming an 
elegant kind of net work ; polype with 
eight claws. See Zoophytes. 
GORTERIA, in botany, so named in 
honour of David de Gorter, a genus of the 
Syngenesia Polygainia Frustranea class and 
order. Natural order of Composite Capi- 
tate. Corymbifera?, Jussieu. Essential 
character : calyx imbricate, with spiny 
scales ; corolla of the ray iigulate ; down 
woolly ; receptacle naked. There are thir- 
teen species, mostly shrubby plants from 
the Cape of Good Hope. 
GOSHAWK, the English name of the 
yellow-legged falcon, with a brown back, 
and a white variegated breast. See Fal- 
co. 
GOSSAMER is the name of a fine filmy 
substance, like cobweb, which is seen to 
