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  • English Word Go Definition That condition in the course of the game when a player can not lay down a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
  • English Word Go-between Definition An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense.
  • English Word Go-by Definition A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to give a proposal the go-by.
  • English Word Go-out Definition A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out.
  • English Word Goa Definition A species of antelope (Procapra picticauda), inhabiting Thibet.
  • English Word Goa powder Definition A bitter powder (also called araroba) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (Andira araroba) and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained.
  • English Word Goad Definition A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.
  • English Word Goad Definition To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.
  • English Word Goaded Definition of Goad
  • English Word Goading Definition of Goad
  • English Word Goaf Definition That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob .
  • English Word Goafs Definition of Goaf
  • English Word Goal Definition The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.
  • English Word Goal Definition The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain.
  • English Word Goal Definition A base, station, or bound used in various games; in football, a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score; also, the act of kicking the ball over the line between the goal posts.
  • English Word Goar Definition Same as lst Gore.
  • English Word Goarish Definition Patched; mean.
  • English Word Goat Definition A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.
  • English Word Goatee Definition A part of a man's beard on the chin or lower lip which is allowed to grow, and trimmed so as to resemble the beard of a goat.
  • English Word Goatfish Definition A fish of the genus Upeneus, inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico. It is allied to the surmullet.
  • English Word Goatherd Definition One who tends goats.
  • English Word Goatish Definition Characteristic of a goat; goatlike.
  • English Word Goatlike Definition Like a goat; goatish.
  • English Word Goatskin Definition The skin of a goat, or leather made from it.
  • English Word Goatskin Definition Made of the skin of a goat.
  • English Word Goatsucker Definition One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europaeus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk.
  • English Word Goaves Definition of Goaf
  • English Word Goaves Definition Old workings. See Goaf.
  • English Word Gob Definition Same as Goaf.
  • English Word Gob Definition A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful.