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A male goat. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A species of antelope (Procapra picticauda), inhabiting Thibet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. gād; perh. akin to AS. gār a dart, and E. gore. See Gore, v. t. ] A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates. [ 1913 Webster ]

The daily goad urging him to the daily toil. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Goaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Goading. ] To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

That temptation that doth goad us on. Shak.

Syn. -- To urge; stimulate; excite; arouse; irritate; incite; instigate. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. compelled forcibly by an outside agency; as, mobs goaded by blind hatred.
Syn. -- driven, forced. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Goafs r Goaves [ Cf. 1st Gob. ] (Mining) That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob . [ 1913 Webster ]

To work the goaf or
To work the gob, to remove the pillars of mineral matter previously left to support the roof, and replace them with props. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gaule pole, Prov. F. waule, of German origin; cf. Fries. walu staff, stick, rod, Goth. walus, Icel. völr a round stick; prob. akin to E. wale. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal
With rapid wheels. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each individual seeks a several goal. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A base, station, or bound used in various games as the point or object which a team must reach in order to score points; in certain games, the point which the ball or puck must pass in order for points to be scored. In football, it is a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score points; in soccer or ice hockey, it is a net at each end of the soccer field into which the soccer ball or hocjey puck must be propelled; in basketball, it is the basket{ 7 } suspended from the backboard, through which the basketball must pass. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

4. (Sport) The act or instance of propelling the ball or puck into or through the goal{ 3 }, thus scoring points; as, to score a goal. [ PJC ]

Goal keeper, (Sport) the player charged with the defense of the goal, such as in soccer or ice hockey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having no points scored; -- of games.
Syn. -- scoreless, hitless. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Sport) The line bounding the end of a playing field, at or directly in front of the goal{ 3 }. [ PJC ]

n. (hockey or soccer) The area immediately in front of the goal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Sport) One of two posts supporting a crossbar which forms a goal{ 3 }, especially in American football; also, in football the entire structure consisting of the posts, crossbar, and two uprights. To score a goal by kicking the football, the ball must pass above the crossbar and between the vertical lines formed by the uprights. [ PJC ]

[ So called from Goa, on the Malabar coast, whither it was shipped from Portugal. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as 1st Gore. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Patched; mean. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE goot, got, gat, AS. gāt; akin to D. geit, OHG. geiz, G. geiss, Icel. geit, Sw. get, Dan. ged, Goth. gaits, L. haedus a young goat, kid. ] (Zool.) A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (Capra hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Cashmere and Angora varieties of the goat have long, silky hair, used in the manufacture of textile fabrics. The wild or bezoar goat (Capra ægagrus), of Asia Minor, noted for the bezoar stones found in its stomach, is supposed to be one of the ancestral species of the domestic goat. The Rocky Mountain goat (Haplocercus montanus) is more nearly related to the antelopes. See Mazame. [ 1913 Webster ]

Goat antelope (Zool), one of several species of antelopes, which in some respects resemble a goat, having recurved horns, a stout body, large hoofs, and a short, flat tail, as the goral, thar, mazame, and chikara. --
Goat fig (Bot.), the wild fig. --
Goat house. (a) A place for keeping goats. (b) A brothel. [ Obs. ] --
Goat moth (Zool.), any moth of the genus Cossus, esp. the large European species (Cossus ligniperda), the larva of which burrows in oak and willow trees, and requires three years to mature. It exhales an odor like that of the he-goat. --
Goat weed (Bot.), a scrophulariaceous plant, of the genus Capraria (Capraria biflora). --
Goat's bane (Bot.), a poisonous plant (Aconitum Lucoctonum), bearing pale yellow flowers, introduced from Switzerland into England; wolfsbane. --
Goat's foot (Bot.), a kind of wood sorrel (Oxalis caprina) growing at the Cape of Good Hope. --
Goat's rue (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Galega officinalis of Europe, or Tephrosia Virginiana in the United States). --
Goat's thorn (Bot.), a thorny leguminous plant (Astragalus Tragacanthus), found in the Levant. --
Goat's wheat (Bot.), the genus Tragopyrum (now referred to Atraphaxis). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a small pointed chin beard. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A fish of the genus Upeneus, inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico. It is allied to the surmullet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who tends goats. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characteristic of a goat; goatlike. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give your chaste body up to the embraces
Of goatish lust. Massinger.

-- Goat"ish*ly, adv. -- Goat"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a goat; goatish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.), A weedy European annual with yellow flowers, of the genus Tragopogon; -- so named from the long silky beard of the seeds. One species is the salsify or oyster plant; it is naturalized in US.
Syn. -- meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A short-stemmed South African plant (Oxalis caprina) with bluish flowers.
Syn. -- goat's foot, Oxalis caprina. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The skin of a goat, or leather made from it. -- a. Made of the skin of a goat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europæus); -- 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ See Goaf, n. ] (Mining) Old workings. See Goaf. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A species of wild goat (Capra Nubiana) found in the mountains of Abyssinia, Upper Egypt, and Arabia; -- called also beden, and jaela. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) The jharal. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. Amboyna wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a nonexistent goal; as, he lived without a reason progressing toward no-goal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A goad for driving oxen. [ 1913 Webster ]