G O A 
To GOAD, V. a. To prick or drive with the goad. 
To incite; to fllmulate ; toinftigate; to drive forward ; 
Mod dangerous 
Is that temptation, that doth goad us on 
To fin in loving virtue. Shahe/peare. 
GOAL, y. \_gaule, Fr.] A long pole, fet up to mark 
the bounds of the race. The landmark fet up to bound 
a race ; the point marked out to which racers run : 
As at the Olympian games, or Pythian fields, 
Part curb their fiery deeds, or fiiun the goal 
With rapid wheels. Milton. 
The darting pod ; 
Had thou beheld, when from the goal they dart. 
The youthful charioteers with heaving heart 
Riifli to the race ? Dry dm. 
The final purpofe ; the end to which a defign tends.— 
Our poet has always the goal in his eye, which directs 
him in his race : fome beautiful defign, which he fird 
cdablifiies', and then contrives the means, which will 
naturally condudt him to his end. Dryden. 
Each individual feeks a feveral goal, 
But heav’n’s great view is one, and that the whole. Pope, 
It is fometimes improperly written, for Gaol, ox jail ; 
which fee. 
GOAR,/! \_goror, Welfii.] Any edging fewed upon 
cloth to drengthen it. Skinner. 
GOAR (James), a learned French dominican monk, 
born at Paris in i6oi, and entered into the order of 
preaching friars in 1619.' Being fent on a million into 
the Levant, he there made the dodtrines and ceremonies 
of the Greek church the fubjects of his diligent invef- 
tigation. Returning afterwards to Rome, he formed 
an acquaintance with the mod learned men of the times, 
and particularly with Leo Allatius. He alfo carefully 
examined the difi'erent printed books and manuferipts 
in the libraries of tliat city, which treat of the Greek 
rituals; and from the materials which he collected 
drew up a very learned work, confiding of a colledtion 
of the Greek liturgies. See. illudrated with numerous 
valuable notes, highly ufeful in explaining the dogmas 
and ecclefiadical ceremonies of the eadern churches. 
It was publifhed at Paris in 1647, in Greek and Latin, 
under the title of Eucologion, five Rituale Gracorum, folio. 
This work having become fcarce, was reprinted at Ve¬ 
nice in 1730, folio. Father Goar alfo tranllated into 
Latin fome of the Greek writers on the Byzantine hif- 
tory, which form the curious collection printed at the 
Louvre: Inch as, i. The Treatife of George Codinus 
concerning the Officers of the Palace, and thofe of the 
Great .Church at Condantinople, with Notes, 1648. 
a. The Chronography of George Syncellus, and that of 
Nicephorus, Patriarch of Condantinople, 1652. 3. The 
Annals of George Cedrenus, with Notes, 1647. 4. The 
Chronography of Theophanes, with Notes, and the va¬ 
rious Readings colleCIed by Father Combefis, 1655. 
5. The Lives of the modern Emperors, by Leo the 
Grammarian, 1655. He died in 1653. 
GO ARS'HAU SEN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine, and county of Katzenelnbogen, 
lituated on the ead lide of the Rhine : two miles ealt of 
St. Goar. 
GOAT, y [Sar, Saxon and Scottifh.] A ruminant 
animal that feems a connecting I'pecies between the deer 
and Iheep. For its natural hidory and particular fpe- 
cies, fee the article Capra, vol.iii. p. 770. 
The little bear that rock’d the mighty Jove, 
The fwan whole borrow’d ffiape conceal’d his love. 
Are grac’d with light ; the nurling goat’s repaid. 
With heav’n, and duty rais’d the pious maid. Creech, 
GO'AT’s BEARD, f. See Tragopogon, 
GOB 
GOAT I'SLAND, an ifland of the American States, 
in the date of Rhode Ifiand, oppofite to the town of 
Newport, on which is Fort Waffiington. The fort has 
been lately repaired, and a citadel erected in it. 
GOAT I'SLAND ^Great), a fmall ifiand near the 
fouth coad of Jamaica. Lat. 17.53. N. Ion, 76. 51. W, 
Greenwich. 
GOAT I'SLAND (Little), a fmall ifiand, about a 
mile north-wed from Great Goat Ifland. - 
GOAT’S I'SLAND, the fouthernmod of the Bafliee 
Ifiands, in the Eadern Indian Sea. Lat. 20. 6. N. Ion. 
121. Pi. Greenwich. 
GO'AT’s MILK,y The milk of goats.—After the 
fever and fuch like accidents are diminiflied, afs’s and 
goat's milk may be necelTary. Wifeman. 
GO'AT’s RUE, y See Galega. 
GO'AT-SKIN, y. Skin of a goat; a veflel made of 
the hide of a goat: 
Then fill’d two goat-fans, with her hands divine ; 
With water one, and one with fable wine. Pope. 
GO'AT-SUCKER,y. in ornithology. See Capri- 
mulgus, vol. iii. p. 778. 
GOAT’S THORN, y. See Astragalus. 
GO'AT WEED, y. SeeCAPRARiA. 
GO'ATH, a place in Paledine, fituated near Jerufa- 
lem. Jer. xxxi. 39. 
GOAT'HERD, y [gat: and hyjrb. Sax, a feeder or 
tender.] One whole employment is to tend goats: 
Is not thilk fame goatherd proud. 
That fits on yonder bank, 
Whofe draying herd themfelf doth fliroud 
Among the buffies rank ? Spenfer’s P of orals. 
GOAT'ISH, adj. Refembling a goat in any quality : 
as, ranknefs ; lud.—The lad is notorious for its 
fmell, and tufts not unlike the beard of that lecherous 
animal. More. 
GOA'VE (Grand), a town of the ifiand of St. Do¬ 
mingo : ten miles fouth-wed of Leogane. 
GOA'-VE (Petit), a feaport town of the ifiand of 
St. Domingo, with a harbour capable of receiving vef- 
fels of the larged fize fafe from winds ; the environs 
contain plantations of fugar, codec, indigo, and cotton. 
This town is the daple to which the inhabitants of 
Grand Goave and other places fend their commodities: 
twenty miles wed-foutli-wedof Leogane. Lat. i8,30.N. 
Ion. 55. 5. W. Ferro. 
GOB,y. \_gobe, Fr. ] A fmall quantity. A low word, 
—Do’d think I have fo little wit as to part with fuch a 
gob of money ? L’Ef range. 
GOB, or Gezer. See Gezer. 
GO'BAN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Chu- 
lidan : feventy-five miles fouth of Sufa. 
GO'BAR, a governor of Mefopotamia, who checked 
the courfe of the Euphrates, that it might run rapidly 
through Babylon. Pliny. 
GOB'BET, y \_gobe, Fr.] A-mouthful ; as much as 
can be fwallowed at once,—The cooks dice it info little 
gobbets. Sandy. 
The giant, gorg’d with flefii, and wine, and blood. 
Lay Itretch’d at length, and fnoringin his den. 
Belching raw gobbets from his maw, o’ercharg’d 
With purple wine, and cruddled gore confus’d. Addifon, 
To GOB'BET, v.a. To fwallow at a mouthful. A 
low word. —Down comes a kite powdering among them, 
and gobbets up both together, L’Ef range. 
GOB'BI, a country of Africa, between the country 
of Gamma and Cape Lopez Gonfalvo; the chief trade 
of the place confids in elephants and ivory ; the prin¬ 
cipal town is fituated about a day’s journey from the At¬ 
lantic. 
To GOB'BLE, v.a. [gober, old French, to fwallow.] 
To 
