Part 4873

<blockquote>The fruit she <b>goes</b> with, I pray for heartily, that it may find Good time, and live. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to <i>stay</i> and <i>come</i>.</def>

<blockquote>I will let you <b>go</b>, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God; . . . only ye shall not <b>go</b> very far away. <i>Ex. viii. 28.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die.</def>

<blockquote>By Saint George, he's <b>gone</b>! That spear wound hath our master sped. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>11.</b> <def>To reach; to extend; to lead; <as>as, a line <ex>goes</ex> across the street; his land <ex>goes</ex> to the river; this road <ex>goes</ex> to New York.</as></def>

<blockquote>His amorous expressions <b>go</b> no further than virtue may allow. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>12.</b> <def>To have recourse; to resort; <as>as, to <ex>go</ex> to law</as>.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Go</i> is used, in combination with many prepositions and adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb, lies the principal force of the expression; as, to <i>go against</i> to <i>go into</i>, to <i>go out</i>, to <i>go aside</i>, to <i>go astray</i>, etc.</note>

<cs><col>Go to</col>, <cd>come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation, serious or ironical.</cd> -- <col>To go a-begging</col>, <cd>not to be in demand; to be undesired.</cd> -- <col>To go about</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to undertake. "They <i>went about<i> to slay him."</cd>

<i>Acts ix. 29.</i>

<blockquote>They never <b>go about</b> . . . to hide or palliate their vices. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <cd>To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear.</cd> -- <col>To go abraod</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To go to a foreign country.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To go out of doors.</cd> <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be current.</cd>

<blockquote>Then <b>went</b> this saying <b>abroad</b> among the brethren. <i>John xxi. 23.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>To go against</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To march against; to attack.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to.</cd> -- <col>To go ahead</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To go in advance.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To go on; to make progress; to proceed.</cd> -- <col>To go and come</col>. <cd>See <cref>To come and go</cref>, under <er>Come</er>.</cd> -- <col>To go aside</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To withdraw; to retire.</cd>

<blockquote>He . . . <b>went aside</b> privately into a desert place. <i>Luke. ix. 10.</i></blockquote>

<sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To go from what is right; to err.</cd> <i>Num. v. 29.</i>-- <col>To go back on</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To retrace (one's path or footsteps).</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To abandon; to turn against; to betray. <mark>[Slang, U. S.]</mark></cd> -- <col>To go below</col> <sd>(Naut)</sd>, <cd>to go below deck.</cd> -- <col>To go between</col>, <cd>to interpose or mediate between; to be a secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander.</cd> -- <col>To go beyond</col>. <cd>See under <er>Beyond</er>.</cd> -- <col>To go by</col>, <cd>to pass away unnoticed; to omit.</cd> -- <col>To go by the board</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to fall or be carried overboard; as, the mast <i>went by the board</i>.</cd> -- <col>To go down</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To descend.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To go below the horizon; as, the sun has <i>gone down</i>.</cd> <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc.</cd> <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd>

<blockquote>Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it <b>goes down</b> whole with him for truth. <i>L' Estrange.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>To go far</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To go to a distance.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To have much weight or influence.</cd> -- <col>To go for</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To go in quest of.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To represent; to pass for.</cd> <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To favor; to advocate.</cd> <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>To attack; to assault.</cd> <mark></mark> <sd>(e)</sd> <cd>To sell for; to be parted with for (a price).</cd> -- <col>To go for nothing</col>, <cd>to be parted with for no compensation or result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count for nothing.</cd> -- <col>To go forth</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To depart from a place.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate.</cd>

<blockquote>The law shall <b>go forth</b> of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. <i>Micah iv. 2.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>To go hard with</col>, <cd>to trouble, pain, or endanger.</cd> -- <col>To go in</col>, <cd>to engage in; to take part. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd> -- <col>To go in and out</col>, <cd>to do the business of life; to live; to have free access. <i>John x. 9</i>.</cd> -- <col>To go in for</col>. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a measure, etc.).</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor, preferment, etc.)</cd> <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To complete for (a reward, election, etc.).</cd> <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc.</cd>

<blockquote>He was as ready <b>to go in for</b> statistics as for anything else. <i>Dickens.</i></blockquote>

-- <mcol><col>To go in to</col> &or; <col>unto</col></mcol>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To enter the presence of.</cd> <i>Esther iv. 16.</i><sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To have sexual intercourse with. <mark>[Script.]</mark></cd> -- <col>To go into</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question, subject, etc.).</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To participate in (a war, a business, etc.).</cd> -- <col>To go large</col>. <sd>(Naut)</sd> <cd>See under <er>Large</er>.</cd> -- <col>To go off</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To go away; to depart.</cd>

<blockquote>The leaders . . . will not <b>go off</b> until they hear you. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness <i>went off</i>.</cd> <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To die.</cd> <i>Shak</i>. <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of a gun, a mine, etc.</cd> <sd>(e)</sd> <cd>To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of.</cd> <sd>(f)</sd> <cd>To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.</cd>

<blockquote>The wedding <b>went off</b> much as such affairs do. <i>Mrs. Caskell.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>To go on</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, <i>to go on</i> reading.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will not <i>go on</i>.</cd> -- <col>To go all fours</col>, <cd>to correspond exactly, point for point.</cd>

<blockquote>It is not easy to make a simile <b>go on all fours</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>