-- <col>To go out</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To issue forth from a place.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition.</cd>
<blockquote>There are other men fitter <b>to go out</b> than I. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote>What <b>went</b> ye <b>out</b> for to see ? <i>Matt. xi. 7, 8, 9.</i></blockquote>
<sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as news, fame etc.</cd> <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as, the light has <i>gone out</i>.</cd>
<blockquote>Life itself <b>goes out</b> at thy displeasure. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>
-- <col>To go over</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides.</cd>
<blockquote>I must not <b>go over</b> Jordan. <i>Deut. iv. 22.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote>Let me <b>go over</b>, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan. <i>Deut. iii. 25.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote>Ishmael . . . departed <b>to go over</b> to the Ammonites. <i>Jer. xli. 10.</i></blockquote>
<sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, <i>to go over</i> one's accounts.</cd>
<blockquote>If we <b>go over</b> the laws of Christianity, we shall find that . . . they enjoin the same thing. <i>Tillotson.</i></blockquote>
<sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To transcend; to surpass.</cd> <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>To be postponed; as, the bill <i>went over</i> for the session.</cd> <sd>(e)</sd> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <cd>To be converted (into a specified substance or material); as, monoclinic sulphur <i>goes over</i> into orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose <i>goes over</i> into dextrose and levulose.</cd> -- <col>To go through</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To accomplish; as, <i>to go through</i> a work.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To suffer; to endure to the end; as, <i>to go through</i> a surgical operation or a tedious illness.</cd> <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune.</cd> <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>To strip or despoil (one) of his property.</cd> <mark>[Slang]</mark> <sd>(e)</sd> <cd>To botch or bungle a business.</cd> <mark>[Scot.]</mark> -- <col>To go through with</col>, <cd>to perform, as a calculation, to the end; to complete.</cd> -- <col>To go to ground</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To fall in battle.</cd> -- <col>To go to naught</col> (<mark>Colloq</mark>.), <cd>to prove abortive, or unavailling.</cd> -- <col>To go under</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To set; -- said of the sun.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.</cd>). <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish; to succumb.</cd> -- <col>To go up</col>, <cd>to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail.</cd> <mark>[Slang]</mark> -- <col>To go upon</col>, <cd>to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis.</cd> -- <col>To go with</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To accompany.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To coincide or agree with.</cd> <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To suit; to harmonize with.</cd> -- <col>To go</col> (<col>well</col>, <col>ill</col>, ∨ <col>hard</col>) <col>with</col>, <cd>to affect (one) in such manner.</cd> -- <col>To go without</col>, <cd>to be, or to remain, destitute of.</cd> -- <col>To go wrong</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or stray.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To depart from virtue.</cd> <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To happen unfortunately.</cd> <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>To miss success.</cd> -- <col>To let go</col>, <cd>to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to release.</cd>
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<hw>Go</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To take, as a share in an enterprise; to undertake or become responsible for; to bear a part in.</def>
<blockquote>They to <b>go</b> equal shares in the booty. <i>L'Estrange.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>2.</b> <def>To bet or wager; <as>as, I'll <ex>go</ex> you a shilling</as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>
<cs><col>To go halves</col>, <cd>to share with another equally.</cd> -- ><col>To go it</col>, <cd>to behave in a wild manner; to be uproarious; to carry on; also, to proceed; to make progress.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> -- <col>To go it alone</col></mcol> <fld>(Card Playing)</fld>, <cd>to play a hand without the assistance of one's partner.<-- to do anything without the assistance of one's former associates --></cd> -- <col>To go it blind</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To act in a rash, reckless, or headlong manner. <mark>[Slang]</mark></cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Card Playing)</fld> <cd>To bet without having examined the cards.<-- = to bet in the blind --></cd> -- <col>To go one's way</col>, <cd>to set forth; to depart.</cd></cs>
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<hw>Go</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Act; working; operation.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>
<blockquote>So gracious were the <b>goes</b> of marriage. <i>Marston.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>2.</b> <def>A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.</def> <mark>[Slang]</mark>
<blockquote>This is a pretty <b>go</b>. <i>Dickens.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>3.</b> <def>The fashion or mode; <as>as, quite the <ex>go</ex></as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>
<p><b>4.</b> <def>Noisy merriment; <as>as, a high <ex>go</ex></as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>
<p><b>5.</b> <def>A glass of spirits.</def> <mark>[Slang]</mark>
<p><b>6.</b> <def>Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance; push; <as>as, there is no <ex>go</ex> in him</as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>
<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Cribbage)</fld> <def>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.</def>
<cs><mcol><col>Great go</col>, <col>Little go</col></mcol>, <cd>the final and the preliminary examinations for a degree.</cd> <mark>[Slang, Eng. Univ.]</mark> -- <col>No go</col>, <cd>a failure; a fiasco. <mark>[Slang]</mark> <i>Thackeray</i>.</cd> -- <col>On the go</col>, <cd>moving about; unsettled. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>
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