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<p><b>2.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>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.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Colored glasses for relief from intense light.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting.</def> <sd>(d)</sd> <def>Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through.</def>

<h1>Goggled</h1> <Xpage=636>

<hw>Gog"gled</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Prominent; staring, as the eye.</def>

<h1>Goggle-eye</h1> <Xpage=636>

<hw>Gog"gle-eye`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family <spn>Centrarchid\'91</spn>, esp. <spn>Ch\'91nobryttus antistius</spn>, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and <spn>Ambloplites rupestris</spn>, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The goggler.</def>

<h1>Goggle-eyed</h1> <Xpage=636>

<hw>Gog"gle-eyed`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes.</def>

<i>Ascham.</i>

<h1>Goggler</h1> <Xpage=636>

<hw>Gog"gler</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A carangoid oceanic fish (<spn>Trachurops crumenophthalmus</spn>), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also <altname>goggle-eye</altname>, <altname>big-eyed scad</altname>, and <altname>cicharra</altname>.</def>

<h1>Goglet</h1> <Xpage=636>

<hw>Gog"let</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pg. <ets>gorgoleta</ets>.]</ety> <def>See <er>Gurglet</er>.</def>

<h1>Going</h1> <Xpage=636>

<hw>Go"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of moving in any manner; traveling; <as>as, the <ex>going</ex> is bad</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Departure.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing.</def>

<i>Crew.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>Course of life; behavior; doings; ways.</def>

<blockquote>His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his <b>goings</b>. <i>Job xxxiv. 21.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Going barrel</col>. <fld>(Horology)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A barrel containing the mainspring, and having teeth on its periphery to drive the train.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A device for maintaining a force to drive the train while the timepiece is being wound up.</cd> -- <col>Going forth</col>. <fld>(Script.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>Outlet; way of exit. "Every <i>going forth<i> of the sanctuary." <i>Ezek. xliv. 5.</i></cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A limit; a border. "The <i>going forth<i> thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea." <i>Num. xxxiv. 4</i>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Going out</col>, &or; <col>Goings out</col></mcol>. <fld>(Script.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>The utmost extremity or limit.</cd> "The border shall go down to Jordan, and the <i>goings out<i> of it shall be at the salt sea." <i>Num. xxxiv. 12</i>. <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>Departure or journeying. "And Moses wrote their <i>goings out<i> according to their journeys." <i>Num. xxxiii. 2</i>.</cd> -- <col>Goings on</col>, <cd>behavior; actions; conduct; -- usually in a bad sense.</cd></cs>

<h1>Goiter Goitre</h1> <Xpage=636>

<hw><hw>Goi"ter</hw> <hw>Goi"tre</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>go\'8ctre</ets>, L. <ets>guttur</ets> throat, cf. tumidum <ets>guttur</ets> goiter, <ets>gutturosus</ets> goitered. See <er>Guttural</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>An enlargement of the thyroid gland, on the anterior part of the neck; bronchocele. It is frequently associated with cretinism, and is most common in mountainous regions, especially in certain parts of Switzerland.</def>

<h1>Goitered, Goitred</h1> <Xpage=636>

<hw><hw>Goi"tered</hw>, <hw>Goi"tred</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Affected with goiter.</def>

<h1>Goitrous</h1> <Xpage=636>

<hw>Goi"trous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>go\'8ctreux</ets>, L. <ets>gutturosus</ets>. See <er>Goiter</er>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele.</def>

<blockquote>Let me not be understood as insinuating that the inhabitants in general are either <b>goitrous</b> or idiots. <i>W. Coxe.</i></blockquote>

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