G O L 
Shirting-; bright; fplendid; rcfptendent.—Heaveii’'s 
g<7/iff«-vvinged l)crald late he faw. CraJJiaui. 
’I'is better to be lowly born 
Than wear a. golden forrow. Skake/peare. 
Yellow; of the colour of gold.— Golden ruireting hath 
a gold-COloured coat under a rud'et hair, and its flefh 
of a yellow colour. Mortimer. —Excellent ; valuable.— 
Thence arifes that golden rule of dealing with others, as 
we would have others deal with us. IVatts. 
I have bought 
Golden opiirions frora all fort of people. Shakefpeare. 
Happy; refeinbling tb.e age of gold.—Many young gen¬ 
tlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time care- 
lefsly, as they did in world. Skakejpcare. 
GOLD'EN AGE, f. That fabulous age of the world 
in which, as the poets tell us, the earth fpontaneoufly 
produced every thing necelfary for the accommodation 
and delight of mankind ; and that, when the inhabitants 
had fpent a length of days in the mofl perfedt peace 
and harmony, exempted from all iiain, difeafe, and in¬ 
firmity, they were wafted in a kind of pleafing dream 
to the regions of eternal blelfednefs. 
GOLD'EN BULL, f. golden, and bulla, Lat. a 
feal. ] An edidf or conflitution of the emperor Charles 
the Dourth, reputed to be the fundamental law of the 
Gejfman empire. - 
GOLD'EN CAr..F,yr in Jewifli antiquity, the figure 
of a calf which the Ifraelites cafl in gold, and let up in 
the wilderncfs to worfliip it. 
GOLD'EN-EYPl, y. A kind of fiih, otherwife called 
gUthead. Sec Sparus. —B. Jojilbn ufes the weird for a 
tranflation of Scarus in Horace, which we tiow call 
the parrol-fifli : 
NorT.ucrine oyflers I could then more prize. 
Nor turbot, nor hnght golden-eyes. 
GOL'DEN FLEECPl, in ancient mythology, denoted 
the (kin or fleece of the ram upon which Phryxus and 
Hella are fuppofed to have (warn over the fea to Col¬ 
chis ; and which being facrificed to Jupiter, was hung 
upon a tree in the grove of Mars, guarded by two 
golden-hoofed bulls, and a dragon that never llept ; 
but was taken and carried off by Jafon and the Argo¬ 
nauts. Many authors have endeavoured to fliow that 
this table is an allegorical reprefentation of fomc real 
hiftory. Others, have explained it by the profit of the 
wool trade to Colchis, or the gold which they common¬ 
ly gathered there with fleeces in the rivers. For the 
fabulous account, fee Argonauts, vol. ii. p. 142. 
Order of the Golden Fleece, a military order 
inftituted by Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, in 
1429. It took its denomination from a reprefentation of 
the golden fleece, borne by the knights on their collars, 
as reprefented in the portrait of the emperor Charles V. 
in this volume. The king of Spain continues grand 
mafter of the order, in quality of duke of Burgundy : 
the number of knights is fixed to thirty-one. It is faid 
to have been inftituted on occafion of an immenl'e pro¬ 
fit which that prince made by wool; though others 
will have a chemical myftery couched under it, as un¬ 
der that famous one of the ancients, which the adepts 
contend to be no other than the lecret of the elixir, 
wrote on the fleece of a fheep. But William bifhop of 
Tournay, chancellor of the order, alferts that the duke 
of Burgundy had in view both the golden fleece of Ja¬ 
fon, and Jacob’s fleece: in the firft, under the fymbol of 
the fleece of Jalbn, is reprefented the virtue of magnani¬ 
mity which every kniglit ought to polfefs ; and under 
the lymbol of the fleece of Jacob, he reprefents the vir¬ 
tue of juftice. 
GOLD'EN FLOW'ER. See Chrysanthe,mum. 
GOLD'FIN ISLAND, a fmall illand at the entrance 
of the Gulf of Darien, m the province of Terra Firma, 
in South America; where there is a river of the lame 
name, from its afiording titiich gold-duft alter violent 
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G O L 
rains, vthicli v.afii it down from the mottntarns. Lat. 3'. 
20. N. ion. 72. 32. W. Greenwich. 
GOI. D'EN LAKE, a hike of tlie illand of Borneo. 
3 - 55- N. Ion. j 15. 45. E. Greenwich. 
GOLD'EN NUM'BER. See the article Chrono¬ 
logy, vol. iv. p. 538. 
GOLD'FIN ROD,/; in botany. SeeSoLiDAGO. 
GOJ. D-EN ROD TREE. See Bosea. 
GOLD'F/N RULFl, allb called the Rule of Three, and 
Rule of Proportion. See its extenfive ufe under the article 
Arithmetic, vol. ii. p. 170. 
GOLD'ENLY, adv. Deiightfully ; fplendidly.—My 
brother Jacques he keeps at fchool, and report fpeaks 
goldenly oi profit. Skakejpcare. 
GOL'DENSTETT, a f own of Gcrrnany, in the ciiK-le 
of VVeftphalia, and county of Diepholz ; eleven miles, 
north ol Diepholz. 
GOLDTINCH, f. [golbpinc. Sax.] A favourite 
finging bird. For its natural liiftory, lee the article 
•Fringilla, in this volume. 
GOLD'FINDFiR, y. One who finds gold. A. terra 
ludicroully applied to th.ofe that empty Jakes: 
His empty paunch that he might fill, 
He fuck’d hh vittels through a q-uill; 
Untouch’d it pafs’d between his grinders, 
Or’t had been happy for goldfndtrs. Swift. 
GOLD'FISH. See Cyprinus, vol. V. p. 53,;. 
GOL'DILOCKS, o^ Gol'd ylocks. See Chryso- 
COMA and Gnaphalium. 
GOLD'ING,y A kind of apple. 
GOLDIN'GEN, a town of the duchy of Courland, 
fituated near the river Weta, formerly the refidcnce of 
the dukes, when it was more commercial and fiourifli- 
ing than it now is. It is defended by an old caftle, and 
contains two churches : forty-eight miles weft.north- 
weft ot Mittau, and one hundred north of Konigiberg. 
Lat. 56. 48. N. Ion. 40. 6. E. Ferro. 
GOLD'LACE, f. A lace made of gold thread.— 
By the common law, perfons that fell orrice lace, 
mixed with other metal or materials than gold, filver, 
(ilk, and vellum, fliall forfeit two Ihillings and fixpence 
for every ounce : and there ftiall be allowed at leaft fix 
ounces of gold and filver prepared and reduced into 
plate, to cover four ounces of filk, except large twift, 
frize, &c. And laying the fame on greater proportions 
of the filk, or in any other manner than direHed, incurs 
the like forfeiture of two {liillings and fixpence the 
ounce. Copper, and lace inferior to filver, is to be fpua 
upon thread, yarn, or incle, and not on filk; but this 
does not extend to tinfel apparel, ufed in theatres. No 
gold or filver lace, thread, fringe, or wire,&-c. may be im¬ 
ported, on pain of being forfeited and burnt, and one 
hundred pounds penalty. 15 Geo. II. c. 20. 28 Geo. III. 
c. 7. The importation and making up of gold and filver 
lace, embroidery, brocade, &c. is prohibited, by 22 
Geo. II. c. 36. 
GOLD'LACED, adj. Trimmed with lace made of 
gold thread. 
GOLD'LEAF,y. Gold beat into thin plates or leaves 
for gilding. 
GOLD'MAN (Nicholas), a German mathematician, 
born at Brellau in Silelia, in 1623, and died at Leyden 
in 1665. He was the author of feveral works of merit, 
of which thofe moft generally efteemed are, i. Elementa 
ArchiteElurce Militaris, 1643, 8vo. 2. De Uft Proportionarii 
Circuli. 3. A u'cat\{& De Stylometricis, 1662; and another 
treatife On Architefture, which Leonard-Chrift. Stunn 
publiftied at Wolfenbuttel, in 1696, accompanied with nu¬ 
merous excellent engravings, and the life of the author. 
GOLDO'NI (Charles), an eminent writer gf tromedy, 
born in 1707 at Venice, of which city his father was a 
phyfician. His prbpenlity to the drama appeared in his 
childhood, and it was encouraged by his father, who 
erefted a theatre in his own houfe, at which young 
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