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

[ Prob. fr. 1st brand + goose: cf. Sw. brandgås. Cf. Brant. ] (Zool.) A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Polit. Econ.) Economic goods that directly satisfy human wants or desires, such as food, clothes, pictures, etc.; -- called also consumption goods, or goods of the first order, and opposed to producer's goods. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) a type of goldfish bred artificially, having a realtively short oval body and a tail with four lobes arrayed somewhat like a folding fan, as though forming a part of the surface of a cone. Called also fantail. [ PJC ]

adj. A more intense and vulgar form of darned; -- often taken as profane and offensive. [ vulgar ]
Syn. -- blasted, blessed, damn, darned, deuced. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. (Bot.) An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A game played by children, in which one child (who is “it”) covers his eyes for a short time while the other players hide, and then the one who is “it” tries to find the others. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

(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 ]

[ From Mannheim in Germany, where much of it was made. ] A kind of brass made in imitation of gold. It contains eighty per cent of copper and twenty of zinc. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The supposed author of a book of nursery rhymes first published as “Mother Goose's Melodies, ” and usually called simply “Mother Goose.” The first English edition is said to have been printed in 1719 in London. The actual persons who composed the rhymes is unknown, and earlier similar rhymes in French are a likely source for some of them. Mother Goose is also used as the title of a book of Mother Goose rhymes. [ PJC ]

(Polit. Econ.) Goods that satisfy wants only indirectly as factors in the production of other goods, such as tools and raw material; -- called also instrumental goods, auxiliary goods, intermediate goods, or goods of the second and higher orders, and disting. from consumers' goods. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A speed regulator, as a water-wheel governor, embodying the relay principle. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A celebrated fairy; Puck. See Puck. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A marine deity; a fabulous being supposed to live in, or have dominion over, the sea, or some particular sea or part of the sea, as Neptune. [ 1913 Webster ]

A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A phalarope. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gown or frock with short sleeves, formerly worn by mariners. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Icel. s&unr_;la; akin to Norw. sula. ] (Zool.) The common gannet. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Scots Law) Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements of husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Mining) Gold in alluvial deposits; placer gold. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Of or pertaining to interactions between a college or university and the residents of the town in which the institution is located; as, a town and gown dispute. [ PJC ]

(Myth.) A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water. [ 1913 Webster ]