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God"speed` (?), n. Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you." [Written also as two separate words.]

Receive him not into house, neither bid him God speed.

2 John 10.

God"ward (?), adv. Toward God. 2 Cor. iii. 4.

God"wit (?), n. [Prob. from AS. g&?;d good + wiht creature, wight.] (Zoˆl.) One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family TringidÊ. The European black- tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (L. fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (L. hÊmastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.

Go"el (g"l), a. [Cf. Yellow. √49.] Yellow. [Obs.] Tusser.

||Go`Î`land" (?), n. [F. goÎland.] (Zoˆl.) A white tropical tern (Cygis ||candida).

||Go`Î`min" (?), n. [F. goÎmon seaweed.] A complex mixture of several ||substances extracted from Irish moss.

Go"en (?), p. p. of Go. [Obs.]

Go"er (?), n. [From Go.] One who, or that which, goes; a runner or walker; as: (a) A foot. [Obs.] Chapman. (b) A horse, considered in reference to his gait; as, a good goer; a safe goer.

This antechamber has been filled with comers and goers.

Macaulay.

Go"e*ty (?), n. [Gr. &?; witchcraft, from &?; to bewitch, &?; sorcerer: cf. F. goÈtie.] Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft. [Obs.] Hallywell.

Goff (?), n. [Cf. F. goffe ill- made, awkward, It. goffo, Sp. gofo, Prov. G. goff a blockhead, Gr. &?; stupid.] A silly clown. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Goff, n. A game. See Golf. [Scot.] Halliwell.

Gof"fer (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Goffered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Goffering.] [See Gauffer.] To plait, flute, or crimp. See Gauffer. Clarke.

Gog (?), n. [Cf. agog, F. gogue sprightliness, also W. gogi to agitate, shake.] Haste; ardent desire to go. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Gog"gle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Goggled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Goggling (?).] [Cf. Ir. & Gael. gog a nod, slight motion.] To roll the eyes; to stare.

And wink and goggle like an owl.

Hudibras.

Gog"gle, a. Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes.

The long, sallow vissage, the goggle eyes.

Sir W. Scott.

Gog"gle, n. [See Goggle, v. i.]

1. A strained or affected rolling of the eye.

2. pl. (a) A kind of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes, in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc. (b) Colored glasses for relief from intense light. (c) A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting. (d) Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through.

Gog"gled (?), a. Prominent; staring, as the eye.

Gog"gle-eye` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) (a) One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family CentrarchidÊ, esp. ChÊnobryttus antistius, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes. (b) The goggler.