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is of German invention, and is well calculated to make 
children ready at reckoning the produce of two given 
miinbers. The table for {)laying at goofi; is ufually 
about the fize of a fheet almanac, and divided into 
fixty-two fmall compartments arranged in a fpiral form, 
with a large open fpace in the midll marked with the 
ber lixty-three ; the fmuller compartments have lingly 
an appropriate number from one to fixty-two inclufive, 
beginning at the outmoll extremity of the fpiral lines. 
It is played with two dice, and every player throws in 
his turn as he fits at the table ; he muft have a counter, 
or feme other mark which he can diftinguifii from the 
marks of his antagonifts ; and according to the amount 
of the two numbers thrown upon the dice he places his 
mark, that is to fay : if he throws a four or a five, 
which amount to nine, he places his mark at nine upon 
the table, moving it the next throw as many numbers 
forward as the dice permit him, and fo on until the 
game be completed ; namely, when the number fixty- 
three is made exaElly •, all above it the player reckons 
back and then tlirows again in his turn. It is called the 
game of thego^, becaufe at every fourth and fifth com¬ 
partment in fucceflion a goofe is depidfed, and if the call 
thrown by the player falls upon a goofe, he moves for- 
WiU'd double the number of his throw.—There is like- 
tvife the game of fnake, and the more modern game of 
matrimony, with others of a fimilar kind formed upon the 
fame plan as that of the goofe ; but none of them appear 
in the leaf! improved by the variations. 
Winchester Goose, a fwelling or tumour in the 
groin ; an old name for a venereal bubo, fo called, be¬ 
caufe the bilhop of Winchelter had the licenfing of the 
llews and brothels in Southwark, in former times. 
GOOSE CREE'K, a river of North America, which 
falls into Potowmac river, about a mile fouth-eall of 
Thorpe, in Fairfax county, Virginia. 
GOO'SE-FOOT, y. in botany. See Chenopodium. 
GOO'SE-GRASS, y in botany. See Galium apa- 
RINE, and Asperugo. 
GOOSE I'SLAND, a fmall ifland in the Gulf of St. 
Laurence, near tlie coall of Labrador. Lat.-jo. 52. N. 
Ion. 52.10. W. of Greenwich. 
GOOSE LA'KE, a lake of North America. Lat. 52. 
25. N. Ion. 59. 10. W. Greenwich. 
GOOSE-TONGUE f. in botany. See Achillea. 
GOO'SEBERRY,y. in botany. See Riues. 
GOO'SEjSERRY ISLANDS, fmall illands near the 
call coall of the illand of Newfoundland : eight leagues 
north-well of Cape Bonavilla. 
GOO'SEBERRY ROCKS, rocks near the coall of 
the llatc of Malfachufetts : two miles north of Marble¬ 
head. 
GOO'SECAP, y. A filly perfon. 
GOO'TY, a town and fortrefs of Hindoollan, and ca¬ 
pital of a dillricl: of the fame name, in the Mylbre coun¬ 
try : 138 miles well-north-welt of Mellore, and 170 
north of Seringapatam. Lat, 15.15.N. Ion. 77.48. E, 
of Greenwich. 
GOP'LO, a lake of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Brzefc, fixteen miles long, and four wide : twenty-four 
miles well of Brzefc. 
GROP'PINGEN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Swabia, and ducliy of Wurtemberg, lltuated on the 
Fils, or Vils, in a fertile country. Here are confidera- 
ble manufactures of woollen goods ; and near it is a me¬ 
dicinal fpring: twenty-two miles eall-fouth-eall of 
Sturtgart, and twenty north-north-w ell of Ulm. 
GOR, a town of Perfia, in the province of Farlillan ; 
fifty-feven miles north-well of Schiras. 
GORAGOT.', a town of Hindoollan, in the country 
of Bengal: lixty miles call of Maulgah, aud eighty 
north-north-eaft of Moorfiiedabab. 
GOVAN’TO', a town of Aliatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Caramania : eighty miles fouth-well of Satalia. 
GORB A'RA, a town of the illand of Corfica ; eight 
miles north-eali of Calvi« 
GOR 6ui 
GORBA'TA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Tunis : twenty miles fouth of Gaftsa. 
GORBATOV', a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Nizegorod, on the Oka: twenty-eight miles well, 
fouth-well of Niznei-Novgorod. Lat. 56. 5. N. Ion. 61, 
E. Ferro. 
GOR'BELLY, y. [from ^op, dung, and i>c//y, ac¬ 
cording to Skinner and Junius. It may perhaps come 
from Wellli, beyond, too imich; or, as feems more 
likely, may be contracted from goma/nf, orgorman shelly, 
the belly of a glutton.] A big paunch ; a fwelling 
belly. A term of reproach for a fat man. 
GOR'BELLIED, cflj;'. Fat; bigbellied; having fwcl- 
ling paunches.—Hang ye, gorbellicd knaves, are you un¬ 
done ? No, ye fat chuffs, I would your ilore were here. 
Shakefgeare. 
GOR'CUM, a town of Holland, fitnated on the river 
Linge, at its union with the Wahal. It was anciently 
called Gorichem, which name is now given it in all pub¬ 
lic aCls, Gorcum being only a corruption. It was 
built in 1230, by one of the lords of Arckel, of which, 
country it is the capital ; with a callle, which v/as de— 
llroyed by the citizens, in 1578, during the revolution. 
From the lleeple of the principal church, may be feen 
twenty-two walled cities, belides a great number of 
towns and villages; before the revolution it had one 
parilh church, and three religious houfes. The city 
w'as governed by two burgomallers, an officer called 
Drofl'art or grand baily, and feven echevins, wJio are 
chofen by the common council, and changed every year. 
The Comte de Lumay, after he had taken Gorcum for 
the States, in 1372, put to death nineteen prielfs and 
other religious people, with the moll cruel torments, 
cutting off their nofes and their ears, and then hanging 
them in a row near the Brill; to the credit of the prince 
of Orange and the States, he was difgraced ; he died a- 
few years after at Liege, from the bite of a mad dog. 
Twelve miles eafl of Dort, and thirty fouth of AmfleV- 
dam. Lat. 51.51. N. Ion. 22. 25. E. Ferro. 
GORD, f. An inftrument of gaming. Warburton .— 
Thy dry bones cap reach at nothing now but goro's and 
ninepins. Beaumont and Fletcher ,— Let vultures gripe thy 
guts; for gords and Fulham holds. Shakcjpeare. 
GORDELl'ZA, a town of Spain, in tlie province of 
Leon : twenty.two miles fouth-lbuth-eafl of Leon. 
GOR'DES, a towm of France, in the department of 
the Mouths of the Rhone, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftriiil of Apt ; rive leagues and a half eafl of 
Avignon, and three well of Apt. 
GORDI2E I, in ancient geography, mountains in, 
Armenia, where the Tigris nfes, luppofed to be the 
Ararat of feripture. 
* GOR'DIAN, or Gordia'nus, I. II. and III. Ro¬ 
man emperors. See the article R OME. 
GOR'DIAN, adj. [from the Gordiank.not.'] Intricate ; 
Clofe the ferpent fly 
Infinuating wove sy'iihGordian twine 
His braided train. Milton. 
GOR'DIAN KNOT, in antiquity, a knot made in the 
harnefs of the chariot of Gordius king of Phrygia, lo 
very intricate, that no one could untie it. See the arti¬ 
cle Gordius. 
GORDIA'NUS, M. Antonins Africanusj fit her and 
fon, diflinguilhed and illultrious Roman emperors; tor 
an account of wliom fee the article ikoME. 
GOR'DIUM, a town of Phrygia. JuJlin. 
GOR'DIUS, a Phrygian, who, though originally 
a peafant, was railed to tlie tlirone, and proclaimed 
king. During a leriition tlie Phrygians confulted the 
oracle, and were told that all their troubles would ceale 
as foon as they chol'e for their king, the find man thev 
met going to the temple of Jupiter, mounted on a cha¬ 
riot or car. Gordius was the objeft of their choice, 
and he immediately confecrated his cliariot in the tem¬ 
ple of Jupiter. The knot which tied the yoke to the 
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