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a bold man have vigour and enterprize in his air and 
motion : it damps value upon his face, and tells the 
people he is to jro for fo much. Collier. —To move by 
mechanil'm.—This pope is decrepid, and the bell gotth 
for him. Bacon. 
Clocks will go as they are fet; but man, 
‘ Irregular man’s never conftant, never certain. Otway, 
’Tis with our judgments as our watches, none 
Qo juft alike, yet each believes his own. Pope. 
To be in motion, from whatever caufe.—Clipt and 
waftied money goes about, w'hen the entire and weiglity 
lies hoarded up. Waller. —To move in any diredfion.— 
Shall the ftiadow go forward ten degrees, or go back 
ten degrees? 2 Kings, xx. 9. —To flow j to pafs ; to 
have a courfe : 
The god I am, whofe yellow water flows 
Around thefe fields, and fattens as it goes^ 
Tybermyname. Dryden, 
To have a tendency : 
Athenians, know 
Againft right reafon all your counfels go. Dryden, 
To be in a ftate of compact or partnerftiip.—There was 
a hunting match agreed upon betwixt a lion, an afs, 
and a fox, and they were to go equal ftiares in the 
booty. DEJlrange, —To be regulated by any method ; 
to proceed upon principles.—We are to go by another 
meafure. Spratt, —The principles I there went on, I fee 
no reafon to alter. Locke, —To be pregnant.—Of living 
creatures I'ome are a longer time in the womb, and fome 
fhorter: women go commonly nine months. Bacon, 
The fruit ftie goes with, 
I pray that it good time and life may find. Shakefpeare, 
To pafs; not to remain.—She began to afflict him, and 
his ftrength from him. Judges, xvi. 19.—When our 
merchants have brought them, if our commodities will 
not be enough, our money muft go to pay for tiiem. 
Locke. —To pafs, or be loofed ; not to be retained.—Let 
go the hand of that arch-heretic. Shakefpeare. 
Then he lets me go. 
And, with his head over his ftioulder turn’d. 
He feem’d to find his way without his eyes. Shakefpeare. 
To be expended.—Scholars are clofe and frugal of 
their words, and not willing to let any go for ornament, 
if they will not ferve for ufe. Felton. —To be in order of 
time or place.—We muft enquire farther what is the 
connexion of that fentence with thofe that go before it, 
and thole wliicli follow it. Watts. —To reacli or be ex¬ 
tended to any degree.—No man’s knowledge here can 
go beyond his experience. Locke. —To extend to confe- 
quences.—It is not one mailer that either direfls or 
takes notice of thefe : it goes a great way barely to per¬ 
mit them. L'Efrange. —To reach by effefls.—Confider- 
iug the cheapnel's, fo much money might go farther 
than a fum ten times greater could do now. Wilkins. — 
To e.xtend in meaning.—His amorous exprelTions go no 
furtlier than virtue may allow. Dryden.—'Eo fpread to 
be difperfed ; to reach ; 
Whole flelli, torn off by lumps, the rav’nous foe 
In morfels cut, to make it farther go. Tate. 
To have influence ; to be of weight; to be of value. 
—’Tis a rule that goes a great way in the government 
of a fober man’s life, not to put any thing to hazard 
that may be fecured by induliry, confideration, or cir- 
cumfpedlion. L'EJlrange.—To be rated one with ano¬ 
ther ; to be conlidered with regard to greater or lefs 
worth.—I think, as the world goes, he was a good fort 
of man enough. Arbuthnot. —To contribute ; to con¬ 
duce ; to concur ; to be an ingredient.—The medicines 
which go to the ointments are fo Itrong, that, if tliey 
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were ufed inwards, they would kill thofe that ufe them. 
Bacon. —To fall out, or terminate ; to fucceed._ I will 
fend to thy father, and they fliall declare unto him how 
things ^0 with thee. Tob. x. 8. 
How-e’er the bufmefs goes, you have made fault 
I’ th’ boldnefs of your fpeech. Shakefpeare. 
To be in any ftate. This fenfe is imperfonal. —It fliall go 
ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. Job, xx. —Ke 
called his name Beriah, becaufe it went evil witJi his 
houfc. iChron. vii. 23.-—To proceed in train or confe- 
quence.—Duration in itfelf is to be confidered as goiner 
on in one conllant, equal, uniform, courfe. Locke. 
I had hope. 
When violence was ceafed, and war on earth. 
All would have then gone well. Milton. 
To Go about. To attempt; to endeavour; to fet 
on'e’s felf to any br'inefs.—They never go about, as in 
former times, to hie,j or palliate their vices; but ex- 
pofe them freely to view. Siuift. 
O dear father, 
It is thy bufmefs that I go about. Shakefpeare, 
To Go afide. To err ; to deviate from the right.—If 
any man’s wife go afide, and commit a trefpafs againft 
him. Numb. v. 12. 
To Go between. To interpofe ; to moderate between 
two .—1 did go between them, as I faid ; but more than 
that, he loved her ; for, indeed, he was mad for her. 
Shakefpeare. 
To Go by. To pafs away unnoticed.—What’s that 
to us ? The time goes by ; away. Shakefpeare. 
Do not you come my tardinefs to chide. 
That laps’d in time and paflion, lets^o by 
Th’ important acting of your dread command. Shakefp. 
To find or get in the conclufion.—He’s hire to go by tlie 
worft, that contends with an adverfary tJiat is too mighty 
for him. DEf range. 
In argument with men a woman ever 
Goes by the worfe, whatever be her caufe. Milton, 
To obferve as a rule.—The frequency of the fits, and 
violence of the fymptoms, are a better rule to go by. 
Sharp. 
To Go down. To be fw’allowcd ; to be received, not 
rejedted.—Folly will not ealily go down in its own natu¬ 
ral form witli difeerning judges. Dryden, —If he be 
Iiungry, bread will go down. Locke. 
To Go in and out. To do the bufmefs of life_Tiie 
Lord lhall preferve thy going out and thy coming in. 
Pfalm. —To be at liberty.—He lhall go in and out, and 
find pafture. John. • ■ 
To Go gf. I'o die ; to go out of life ; to deceafe_ 
In this manner he went of, not like a man that departed 
out of life, but one that returned to his abode. Taller, 
I would the friends we mil's were fafe arrived. 
Some moxH go off •, and yet, by thefe I fee. 
So great a day as this is cheaply bought. ShakeJ'peare. 
To depart from a poll: 
The leaders having charge from you to Hand, 
Will not go 2^ until they hear youfpeak. Shakefpeare, 
To Go on. To make attack ; 
Bold Cethegus, 
Whofe valour 1 have turn’d into his poifon. 
And praifed fo to daring, as he would 
Go on upon the gods. Ben Jonfon, 
To proceed.—He that delires only that the work of 
God and religion ftiould go on, is pleafed with it, who¬ 
ever is the inllrument. Taylor. — Go on chearfully in the 
glorious courfe you have undertaken. Addifon. 
To Go over. To revolt; to betake himfelf to ano¬ 
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