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goatn.adj. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Middle Dutch geet (Dutch geit), Old Saxon gēt (Middle Low German gēite, rare), Old High German geiz (Middle High German geiz, German regional (chiefly southern, Swiss and Austrian) Geiß), Old Icelandic geit, Old Swedish, Swedish get, Old Danish get (Danish ged), Gothic gaits < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin haedus kid.Ulterior etymology. The word may have been borrowed from a non-Indo-European language at an early date; suggestions include a Semitic origin (compare Hebrew gĕḏī , Arabic jady , Akkadian gadu , all in sense ‘kid, young goat’, although the formal similarity of these to the Indo-European nouns may be coincidental) and an unknown language underlying both the Semitic and Indo-European words. Form history. In Old English a feminine athematic consonant stem (compare book n., goose n., louse n., oak n., etc.), showing i-mutation of the stem vowel (caused by i of the lost inflectional ending) in dative singular gǣt and nominative and accusative plural gǣt . This mutated form would also be expected for the original genitive singular, but is not attested. The usual genitive singular form is analogical (ō -stem) gāte (compare also the rare hybrid gǣte , in an isolated attestation). In Middle English, in the singular the unmutated stem form (the reflex of Old English gāt , originally nominative and accusative) develops as expected: it is preserved in northern dialects as gate , gait , etc. (see Forms 1α. ), while in southern dialects it undergoes regular development of the vowel to long open ō , as gote , etc. (see Forms 1β. ), the antecedent of the modern standard form. The genitive in -s is attested earliest in place names (from Old English onwards), but seems not to be well attested in lexical use until the 14th cent. In the plural the reflex of the Old English mutated stem form in the nominative and accusative survives in southern and midland dialects as get , geet , etc. (see Forms 2aα. ). However, northern dialects show gait , i.e. apparently the unmutated stem form (see Forms 2aβ. ), perhaps partly due to the influence of early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic geit ) as well as levelling from the singular. However, unmarked and unmutated plural forms are also found in southern Middle English dialects (see Forms 2aγ. ). Inflected plural forms in -s (see Forms 2b) are attested from early Middle English onwards, and eventually supersede the unmarked plural in early modern English (except in Scots). Forms such as geetis (see Forms 2bβ. ) apparently show a double plural (mutated and inflected). A singular form get , geet (see Forms 1γ. ) is also attested; this is probably not the reflex of the Old English mutated dative singular, but rather inferred from the mutated plural forms (especially double plural forms such as geetis); compare e.g. quots. a1382 at Forms1γ. and a1382 at Forms 2bβ. , which are from the same source. Compounds. The word occurs frequently as the first element in compounds, in all periods. Where forms with final -e occur as the first element of compounds in Old English, it is difficult to determine whether this shows attributive use of a disyllabic stem form or an inflected genitive singular form (gāte ) modifying the second word. Similarly, several early Middle English compounds that appear to be attributive may in fact be reflexes of collocations of the Old English noun in the genitive (either singular gāte or plural gāta ). Gender and semantic development. Like its Germanic cognates, Old English gāt is feminine and usually denotes the female of the animal (the male is usually called bucca buck n.1; compare quot. OE3 at sense A. 1a), although it can also be used by default when sex is unspecified or irrelevant (compare quot. OE2 at sense A. 1a). The word is only rarely used for the male in Old English, but compare the early attestation of the compound gātbucca goat buck n. In the course of the Middle English period, the word is increasingly used to denote the animal in general, and the distinctive terms he-goat n. at he pron., n.1, and adj. Compounds 2 and she-goat n. at she pron.1, n., and adj. Compounds 1a(b) begin to develop (compare also later billy-goat n. and nanny-goat n.). Similarly the English word is used to translate classical Latin capra she-goat (see capriole n.), but increasingly also its masculine counterpart caper , as well as hircus (see hircose adj.), both in sense ‘he-goat’. In post-medieval and scientific contexts (especially in compounds), goat is also used to translate ancient Greek αἰγ- , αἴξ goat (male or female) (see Aegipan n.) and τράγος he-goat (see tragus n.). The young animal is called a kid n.1 In early modern English there is some evidence of the development of a semantic distinction between forms with mutated and unmutated stem vowel to refer respectively to the female and male goat; compare quots. 1550 at Forms 2aα. , 1575 at Forms 2bβ. , and also quot. 1789 at Forms 1γ. (perhaps compare also the earlier coupling of two contrasting plural forms in quot. ?a1475 at Forms 2aγ. ). Specific senses. In later uses in sense A. 1b sometimes used to translate scientific Latin Caprinae , subfamily name. In use with reference to celestial objects (see sense A. 2) after various corresponding uses of words for ‘goat’ in the classical languages: in sense A. 2a after classical Latin capricornus the constellation Capricornus, lit. ‘goat-horned’ (see Capricorn n.; compare caper , in the same sense); in sense A. 2b after classical Latin capella , the name of a star, lit. ‘she-goat’ (see Capella n.; compare capra , in the same sense); in sense A. 2c after classical Latin capra, itself after ancient Greek αἴξ fiery meteor. With use as adjective compare Old English gǣten of a goat, made of goatskin (compare -en suffix4) and also earlier goatskin adj. A. n. 1. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] OE 2 Ic eom wunderlicu wiht, wræsne mine stefne, hwilum beorce swa hund, hwilum blæte swa gat. OE Ælfric (Cambr. Gg.3.28) vii. 64 He toscæt hi on twa, swa swa scephyrde toscæt scep fram gatum [L. haedis]. OE (Claud.) xxxii.13 Twa hund gata & twentig buccena [L. capras ducentas, hircos viginti], & twa hund ewena & twentig rammena. c1175 Libellus de Nominibus Naturalium Rerum in T. Hunt (1991) I. 22 Caper, capra, got .i. cevre. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 1200 Forr gat iss..Gal deor. & stinnkeþþ fule. ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 81 As of antichen..kimeð an stinkinde gat. oðer aful bucke [etc.]. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 10633 Þeh..þer weoren in ane loken. fif hundred gaten [c1300 Otho gotes]. ?a1300 Fox & Wolf l. 167 in G. H. McKnight (1913) 32 (MED) Ac her beþ ioies fele cunne; Her beþ boþe shep and get. a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxxii. 14 Sche-geyt two hundreþ: he-geyt twenty [a1425 L.V. geet..buckis of geet; L. capras..hircos]. a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xvi. 5 He shal take..two gootes [L. duos hircos]. a1400 in K. W. Engeroff (1914) 62 Alle marchauntes of get, shep, oþer swyn. 1481 W. Caxton tr. (1970) 33 After that I wente to the gheet in to the wode, there herde I the kyddes blete. 1535 Lev. xvii. 2 What so euer he be..yt kylleth an oxe, or lambe, or goate in the hoost [etc.]. 1550 W. Thomas Dictionarie sig. Ooii, in Zebe, gheate, the femalles of the ghoates. 1575 G. Gascoigne xlvii. 146 The female (which are called Geats, and the buckes Goates). 1584 R. Scot v. i. 89 The diuell..dooth most properlie and commonlie transforme himselfe into a gote. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. iv. 37 I..scarse euer look'd on blood, But that of Coward Hares, hot Goats, and Venison. 1628 W. Mure tr. R. Boyd 326 The damned goates hee doth despise; Poynts out his lambes, whose sinfull dyes hee purgde with bloody streame. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer III. xiv. 59 He..A shaggy goat's soft hyde beneath him spread. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in (new ed.) 53 Leading a jetblack goat whitehorned, whitehooved. 1871 C. Darwin (1890) ii. xii. 357 A bull, goat, or other sheath-horned ruminant. 1935 Z. N. Hurston i. v. 80 They tried a colored man in Mobile for stealing a goat. 1954 N. Coward iii. ii. 138 I..tried repeatedly to analyse my emotions coldly and clearly; to still my anxieties by segregating them, by separating the sheep from the goats. 1981 J. Halliday & J. Halliday in K. Thear & A. Fraser (1988) iv. 83/1 Unless the scrubland you have is extensive, the goats will eat and kill the shrubs and bushes. 2000 K. Atkinson (2001) 73 They kept goats and chickens and pretended to be self-sufficient. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > wild type of the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > genus Capra > other types of eOE (1974) 30 Ibices, firgingaett. OE tr. (Vitell.) vi. 254 Wið toþece, wudugate geallan mencg wið ele, smyre mid swyþe gelome. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xiv. xliv. 717 Wilde bestes, roos, and wilde goote [L. feris et ibicibus] ben in þis mounte. a1425 Rev. Methodius in J. Trevisa (1925) 105 (MED) Þerfore God cleped Hismael, þe fader of hem, a wilde asse, þe prophete seiynge, wylde asses, & geet, & desert. 1607 E. Topsell 119 There is another Tragelaphus... It wanteth a beard, and the Haire thereof resembleth an Ibex-goate. 1769 tr. P. de Charlevoix I. iii. 183 Great flocks of deer goats, and such other wild animals, which the inhabitants of this part of America [sc. Peru] drive together when they hunt them. 1885 III. 885/1 Thar, the forest goat, is the Nepal name of Nemorhædus bubalina, called..Serow in the hills generally. 1968 B. Kurtén 177 The cave goat was a relatively small animal, only about 50 cm. high at the shoulders. 2001 K. P. J. Jorgenson Pref. p. xvi They discovered a large, previously unknown mammal, a forest goat to be specific. 2. the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > particular signs > [noun] > Capricorn OE Calendar Glosses (Corpus Cambr. 422) in H. D. Meritt (1945) 57/2 [Sol in] capricornu, gat oððe gate horn. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 207 Marcianus seiþ in his Astrologie..þat Capricornus þe goot [L. Capricornus] makeþ somer to þe Antipodes. c1450 J. Capgrave (Bodl. 423) (1911) 35 Ther wer also apperyng þere þe signes super celestial expressid ful weel..As in januari be þe signe þei clepe aquari..in december be þe gote. 1594 T. Blundeville iii. i. xxiv. f. 158 The tenth Signe called Capricornus, that is to say, the Goate. a1631 J. Donne (1633) 18 The Sun hath twenty tymes both Crabb and Goate Parchèd, since first launch'd forth this livinge boat. 1702 S. Clough The Sun takes his Perambulation through the three Cælestial Signs..the Goat, the Water bearer, and Fishes. 1866 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin ii. i. iii. 330 To the west of this constellation, we again find the Waterbearer and the Goat. 1913 Sept. 25/2 There are two bright stars on either side of the Milky Way,..and one of the two very bright stars in the Goat constellation. 2004 Apr. 44/1 Chiron spends the month in Capricorn and advances from 25°30′ of the Goat on the 1st to 26°07′ by the 30th. the world > the universe > star > kind of star > giant > [noun] > Capella 1556 R. Record 264 Then foloweth Erichthonius, with the Goate and the 2 Kyddes. 1674 J. Moxon (ed. 3) ii. 63 I take Capella, alias Hircus, the Goat on Auriga's shoulder. 1807 T. Young I. xli. 496 The two northernmost wheels of the great bear, or wain, point at the bright star Capella, the goat, in Auriga. 1913 A. M. Matlock Griffith 113 Capella, the Goat,..is between Orion and Polaris, and can easily be found by its brightness. 2013 E. Dekker ii. 51/2 The Goat is on one side of his head and the Kids are on the other. the world > the universe > constellation > comet or meteor > meteor > [noun] 1614 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Of Naturall Questions i. i, in tr. Seneca 758 Aristotle called a globe of fire that is in the aire a Goat [L. capram]. 1656 T. Stanley II. vi. 63 Hence come those [fiery exhalations] they call fire-brands, goates, falling-starres [etc.]. 1731 N. Bailey (ed. 2) II. at Meteors When it seems to skip like a goat, appears sometimes kindled, and sometimes not, they call it Capra saltans, i. e. a skipping Goat. 3. the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > flesh of other animals > [noun] > goat ?c1335 in W. Heuser (1904) 135 (MED) Þat on him send gees and henne, Þat oþer geet and motune.] c1450 (Sloane 2464) l. 1839 (MED) Which [meats]..Engendir noon flewm by kynde of ther nature..As geet, motown, And othir that be hoot and moyst in ther operacion. 1586 T. Bright vi. 28 Of beasts; these are of melancholike persons to be eschewed: porke, except it be yong, and a litle corned with salt, beefe, ramme mutton, goate, bores flesh, & veneson. 1657 tr. F. de Quevedo 44 They fell upon a side of roasted Goat, and two great cuts of powder'd meat. 1790 J. Bruce III. v. iii. 70 It [sc. the flesh of an antelope] was lean, had a musky taste, and was worse meat than the goat we had bought from the Shiho. 1805 H. Nicholls Let. 15 Feb. in R. Hallet (1964) xi. 208 Their food is chop made of yam cut in slices, cayenne pepper, palm oil, and fowl, fish, goat or wild hog. 1976 17 Apr. 7/4 Visitors to a Jamaican Night buffet were allowed to eat all they could manage of curry goat, rice and peas, brown chicken, plantain and green banana, ackees and salt fish. 2009 (National ed.) 1 Apr. d1/3 Goat is the most widely consumed meat in the world. society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > skin of goat 1771 27 Aug. The Universal Magazine of Patriotism, from the year 1762 to 1771, 9 vols. bound in goat and calf. 1885 C. T. Davis xxvi. 458 The glassing machine..is adapted for work on all kinds of upper leather, sheep, goat, and Morocco. 1890 Oct. 45 (table) All other..gloves, ‘glace’ finish, goat or other leather than of sheep origin. 1927 J. S. Hewitt-Bates 14 Persians..may be made either from goat or sheep. 2005 M. B. Freese 231 And yet in his quarters I knew him well: the candelabra, the tallis, the religious books bound in goat. 4. society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun] > lascivious or lustful person > lustful man 1601 B. Jonson v. i. sig. K3 This hoary headed letcher, this olde goate Close at your villanie. View more context for this quotation a1674 T. Traherne (1675) 90 When a Covetous man doteth on his Bags of Gold..the Drunkard on his Wine, the Lustful Goat on his Women..they banish all other Objects. 1749 J. Cleland I. 45 Mother Brown had in the mean time agreed the terms with this liquorish old goat,..fifty guineas peremptory for the liberty of attempting me [etc.]. 1828 380 Kenedy attacking him with the epithets of ‘an old goat..a cornucopia of lechery’. 1857 S. A. Hammett xii. 72 I see the old goat a huggin' and a kissin' her on the companion way, when he thought no one wasn't a lookin' at him. 1934 9 June 10/7 You lecherous old goat..that's how you've been spending your time—buying French postcards. 1993 C. Coulter 241 Hafter is like all men—a randy goat who thinks of naught save that rod between his legs. 2004 Q Sept. 132/3 He was regarded as the sleazy old goat who led coltish Londoner Jane Birkin astray. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [noun] > gullible person, dupe a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. i. 179 Hence old Goat . View more context for this quotation 1675 T. Duffett i. i. 2 Pry'thee old Goat tye up thy Clack, and move thy hands. 1841 H. J. Mercier & W. Gallop 101 Some simple, hot–brained editorial goat For want of news has set this yarn afloat. 1899 J. A. Ormar i. xiv. 105 ‘No long-legged, tobacco-fed goat..can beat Tim Burns at croquet.’ 1901 F. Norris i. v. 171 Oh, you goat! You beastly fool. 1947 K. Tennant xxi. 365 ‘Don't be a goat.’ Silly young fools, all three of them. 1949 E. Partridge 296/1 Goat,..a dupe; swindler's victim. 1971 Mar. 37/2 ‘I must discipline these idiots,’ Omolo said to himself... ‘I must beat them today, goats!’ 2000 N. Barlay 125 There she is the crusty old goat, every day, standing around. 2012 M. Foxx 201 You silly old goat, I credited you with far more brains. 1886 in J. S. Robbins (2006) Introd. p. xi What feature of the instructor of the Immortals in Spanish resembles his section? His beard; it is a goatee, and so is his section.] 1894 5 June 8/3 This [sc. Spanish] is considered a hard study, and a sigh of relief is given, especially by the ‘goats’, when it is finished. 1895 3 Nov. 28/3 Robert D. Powers of Kentucky is the ‘goat’ of the class—that is, he stands at the foot. 1932 15 Apr. 4/5 Addresses will be made by..Brig. Gen. George B. Pillsbury, and ‘The Goat’, the lowest ranking engineer officer at the dinner. 1941 3 Nov. 87/2 With his weekly grade he is numbered in the ranks between ‘engineers’ and ‘goats’. 2012 27 Nov. a14 (caption) Cadets celebrated at the United States Military Academy's 2007 graduation at West Point. Each year, the last-ranking cadet is anointed the class ‘goat’. the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > styles of beard 1849 31 Jan. I don't believe that he has a bit of a goat on his chin, or can even tell what a mustache is, or knows how to flourish a cigar. 1856 S. G. Goodrich I. 210 Admirers saw great merit in..his long shaggy goat. 1876 J. S. Ingram v. 151 The little puckered-mouth, pug-nosed Esquimaux, with his slight sprinkling of a mustache and ‘goat’. 1972 R. Salinas in (2005) 281 Freddie was threatened by the hacks if he don't fix his moustache and goat for the visit. 2013 E. Bloom in P. Leavy ii. v. 113 He got a little goat on his chin and a thin line of hair that stretch along his jaw to his ears. 1894 Aug. 373/1 I was a bit taken aback..that I was in for no less a scheme than actually smuggling a cargo into New York! And all, as near as I could see, for no other reason than ‘to be the goat’ (as Jim Stearn had it) to prove a theory. 1909 6 Feb. 6/3 Why is he picked out for covert slurs and anonymous charges which cannot be sustained? Is it an attempt to make him the goat for others' derelictions? 1943 R. Chandler xxxiv. 185 He saw a chance to make me the goat. It wouldn't stick, but it would make confusion and delay. 1979 (Nexis) 1 Sept. The whole bloody affair was a mess... Major-Gen. J. H. Roberts..was made to be the goat afterward. 2004 D. Levinson II. App. iv. 725/2 Fall guy—The goat. The fellow who gets caught. In the world of crime he is the one who takes the rap without squealing. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > racehorse > with particular qualities or faults 1894 13 Sept. 7/1 Oh! how the crowd roared when they saw the equine go to the starting post... ‘What are yer doin' with that there hairy goat?’ 1900 C. L. Cullen 71 Let a kid take care o' your two goats and the caloosh. 1908 27 May 12/2 On arrival here everyone styled him [sc. a racehorse] ‘the goat’. 1918 Sept. 106/2 Every morning the faithful Stude would analyze the Form-Sheet and go back into History until he had a Line on the Performances of every Goat from the cradle up. 1968 T. Thackrey 220 Besides losing on that goat, I got to playing Stuss with a couple of grifters. 1909 10 Oct. 1 s/2 Catcher Schmidt, who had been the ‘goat’ of the first game, redeemed himself at this time. 1929 May 172 (headline) When a ‘goat’ becomes a hero. 1993 6 Dec. c6 Shawn Jefferson..evaded Eugene Daniel..and caught a pass for a 39-yard touchdown... Colts' fans, frustrated by their losing team, considered Daniel a goat. 2014 V. McKee iii. 59 Just one game earlier, Grissom had been the hero, but now he was in position to be the goat. B. adj.society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [adjective] > made of skin or hide of specific animals 1833 25 May 1/3 Gloves..horseskin, goat, kid. 1895 Spring & Summer 290/2 Men's goat driving gloves. 1987 L. Tudge tr. V. Beekman v. 69 The done thing was to decorate them..with a picture of goat-kids. That's where our famous Minoran goat jackets came from. 2004 (Nexis) 15 Sept. 15 Not everyone has the occasion to wear a short-sleeve goat jacket with sequin trim. PhrasesOE 1230 Þær hy arasade reotað ond beofiað fore frean forhte, swa fule swa gæt, unsyfre folc, anra ne wenað. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Ellesmere) (1875) l. 886 For al the world they stynken as a goot Hir sauour is so rammyssh and so hoot. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach iii. f. 144v The Goate is able to engender at seuen monethes olde, being euen as lecherous as a Goate [L. quoniam immodicae libidinis est]. 1604 A. Willet 35 One may well returne Hieromes words vpon you: You are toward others as blinde as a mole, toward him as sharpe sighted as a goate. 1699 J. Edwards I. ii. 78 He is as sly and crafty as a Fox, as lustful and salacious as a Goat. ?1710 J. B. 8 Frolicks in Spring of Youth are things of nought; Tis true, she's wanton as a Goat, But Love, fierce Love, compells her to it. 1777 H. Man III. lii. 144 Don't you see, proceed the impostors, that he looks as sleek as a young roe—that he frisks about like a ram—and that he is as lascivious as a goat? 1822 2 Oct. 3/1 If the President of the United States of America were to be as lascivious as a goat, his propensities could not by possibility influence the nation. 1847 Countess of Blessington 93 She who knew every path, every step about the cottage, and was as sure-footed as a goat. 1948 C. Rice vi. 51 Ned only met this girl yesterday, and when I ran into him at the Casino last night, he was drunk as a goat. 1997 17 Feb. 52/3 He is randy as a goat and pathetic as a child; incontinently garrulous; impossibly selfish. 2002 (Nexis) 6 May Our heroine..has a child but no husband, a lodger who is as horny as a goat, a sumptuous abode, and scant friends. the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > be or become foolish [verb (intransitive)] > act foolishly 1841 9 He's in a silly weeping or at playing the goat. 1879 H. Hartigan 2nd Ser. i. 21 Don't be actin' the goat like ould Larry Healey! 1888 R. Kipling (1890) 91 Generally, as he explained, ‘playing the giddy garden goat all round’. 1914 E. Pugh 190 I'd orate myself, but, as you know, this don't happen to be my day for actin' the silly goat. 1922 L. J. Vance iv. 22 Where was the sense in holding on this tack, ignoring Linda, making her miserable,..and meantime playing the silly goat, all for the sake of a few hours of facile excitement? 1983 C. James xi. 73 We're told the Queen has carpeted Andrew And warned him not to act the giddy goat. 2005 3 Sept. 42/5 They are the geographical equivalent of Carnival..we can play the fool and act the goat there. 1846 17 Feb. I was placed astride of a rail, which I was told was the Odd Fellows' Goat, and that I never could become an Odd Fellow until I had first learned to ride the Goat. In this barbarous manner I was carried three times around the room and finally stopped in front of the Warden's chair.] 1847 Sept. 283/1 How many are in the habit of saying to a person who has been elected, ‘Well, I understand you are going to ride the goat!’ or some similar expression? 1848 May 22 The apology of one who belongs not to the mystic Order, who never rode the Goat, and yet undertakes to write about Masonry. 1892 Apr. 282/2 We are initiating candidates every night. The first meeting night in January we had six that rode the goat. 1901 Nov. 110 Before we were through having the new men ride the goat, we were surprised to have two men from Gamma Epsilon come in. 1933 8 Aug. 7/1 Vice President Garner will ‘ride the goat’ tonight when he takes the initiatory degree in the Uvalde Lodge of Odd Fellows. 1999 (Nexis) 23 May [The author] rang..to say that..she must quash my speculation..that..she has ‘ridden the goat’ and become a member of the Orange Order. P4. slang. to get a person's goat. the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > irritate [verb (transitive)] 1900 25 Feb. 17/5 (heading) Got His Goat. Frank Clayton Has the Tables Turned on Him!!] 1905 21 Oct. 517/2 Well, that gets my goat... The nerve of her! 1906 24 May 18/5 ‘Well, you got my goat up that time, Judge,’ said Mr. Olcott. ‘The truth is liable to grate on some ears,’ retorted the District Attorney. 1922 27 May 8/1 What gets my goat is the assumption that the misty subject is necessarily more artistic than the sharp and regular one. 1960 B. Keaton i. 22 What got my goat was that when I finally did get knocked off..it was due to an accident outside the theatre. 1998 M. Booth ii. 27 It's just my joke. A story we tell to get his goat up. His real tale is much funnier. 2003 ‘S. Pax’ Weblog Diary 21 Feb. in 102 Anyway, what really got my goat this time was finding out that the Human Shields get food coupons. 1907 T. Clarke Let. in June 291/1 It partly ‘got my goat’... I was the least bit scared not knowing what to think about it and besides, they were coming towards our camp. 1910 J. London 2 Aug. (1966) 316 Honestly, I believe I've got Samuels' goat! He's afraid to come back. 1914 4 Apr. 10/3 The kid he was whimperin' like a sick dorg. You know the way. It got my goat—that and the cold and that light in all the dark. 1927 J. M. Saunders ii. 63 He got to thinking about it and it's got his goat. 1958 J. Furthman & L. Brackett (film script, final draft) 94 That got my goat. I can't take that. 1943 Feb. 14/1 A crucial decision in the third inning of the third game shaped up the billy-goat horns for Mac, himself.] 1944 1 Oct. (Sports section) s2/2 He [sc. Babe Ruth] wore the goat's horns in 1942 and was the superstar of 1943. 1963 28 Oct. b3/4 Two Redskin heroes..wore goats' horns Sunday as Washington went down to its fourth straight defeat. 1991 B. M. Nash & A. Zullo 193 With a one-point edge, Bradley tried to dribble out the clock—and almost went home wearing the goat horns. 2011 (Nexis) 16 Oct. (Sports section) c5 McNamara and his pitching staff..deserve a good chunk of the blame. But..only one man can wear the goat horns, and, for that, the baseball gods chose Billy Bucks. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. Some Old English instances in gāte probably show the (strong feminine) genitive singular form. Early Middle English (and occasionally later) instances in gate, etc., may show reflexes of such forms (or of the Old English genitive plural gāta). See etymological note, and see especially goat house n.1795 I. 6 The tinkling goat-bell lulled the plaintive thrush. 1884 Oct. 434/1 Turkish goat-bells and Albanian goat-bells are quite different. 1979 9 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 43/1 We hear goat-bells, and tiny herd-boys emerge cautiously from the bush. 2015 (Nexis) 6 Feb. Goat bells tinkled in the distance. 1839 16 Nov. Yesterday a splendid goat carriage..was driven up and down Tottenham Court-road. 1965 K. Skov tr. J. Brøndsted 275 The powerful red-bearded Thor with his goat carriage and mighty hammer. 2009 G. N. Blum 30 Goat carriages were used for pleasure and also as a means to teach boys to learn to harness and drive. 1612 J. Taylor sig. B3v He raignes as Lord & King, And to Hells Goate-folde aye doth millions bring Of soules. 1753 T. Richards Crou an gueffr, a goat-fold. 1888 4 301 The lower town has been used in modern times as an extensive goat-fold. 1919 G. A. Chamberlain iii. 36 Behind the huts..a stockaded cattle craal and a smaller goat fold. 2015 F.Grice 171 The houses were all built together haphazardly, crowding up against each other and sometimes walling in a sheep or goat fold. the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of goats > [noun] > house or pen for goats OE (2011) 125 Caprile, gata hus.] 1458 in W. S. Simpson (1895) 99 (MED) Vnum gattehous et vnum hoghous. a1557 J. Cheke tr. (1843) xxvi. 71 As he was going forth into ye goathous. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer xvii. 207 [To] lead my Goats afield with a green bough,..and my Goat-houses sweep. 1753 Extracts Trial J. Stewart in Oct. 510/2 The goat-house in the moor. 1872 8 293/2 In order to obtain a healthy goat house it should always be clean and well aired. 1981 J. Halliday & J. Halliday in K. Thear & A. Fraser (1988) iv. 78/2 An impervious vapour barrier must be placed between the insulation and the warm, moisture-laden air in the goat house. 2012 Apr. 14 Forsham has been making chicken houses, dovecotes, goat houses, duck houses and more. 1583 in W. Greenwell (1860) II. 76 xxiij ould gaytt 38s. 4d. iiij gaytt keedes 4s. 1649 J. Jackson 85 She commanded him, saying goe to the flocke, and from thence bring two Goat-kids. 1775 J. Parish tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre 154 The goat-kids and the children at play together. 1861 C. J. Andersson 288 We finally reached Green's camp..having sustained no farther loss than that of a dog and two or three new-born goat-kids. 1957 R. Godden 108 To see it eat as the goat-kids had nibbled in the valley gave Khaliq a sudden pain. 2008 (National ed.) 1 June (Travel section) 12/2 There was a particularly happy assortment of human kids playing with exuberantly friendly goat kids at Redwood Hill Farm. 1658 tr. L. Lemnius ii. iii. 96 The Elk..is a Creature of a Goat kind [L. Caprarum esse generis], but greater in bulk. 1774 O. Goldsmith III. 35 Of Animals of the Sheep and Goat Kind. 1805 J. Ordway Jrnl. 28 Apr. in (1995) IX. 139 Saw large flocks of Cabberrie or antilope which is a Specie of the Goat kind, on the Sides of the hills. 2011 P. W. Syltie (e-book, accessed 27 Nov. 2015) ii. 98 Seven pairs of each clean animal and fowl were brought on board: the several variants of the cattle kind, the antelope kind, the goat kind, the sheep kind, and others. 1824 J. James Let. Sept. in B. Dyde (2000) ii. xiii. 143 They have occasionally wild hog and goat meat. 1933 C. McKay iv. 53 Then followed stewed goat meat..with an assortment of native vegetables. 2003 (National ed.) 3 Aug. v. 11/6 Ethiopian, Somali and Eritrean specialties, including one made with goat meat, come with injera, a tasty flatbread. the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of goats > [noun] > house or pen for goats 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny II. xxviii. x. 322 Goat-pens and stals where they [sc. goats] be kept [L. caprilibus]. 1800 (single sheet) A view of Crusoe's bower and goat pens. 1973 V. C. Ike (1974) iii. 25 ‘Obiano!’ she replied from the goat pen at the back of the house. ‘Are you awake now?’ 2015 (Nexis) 22 July 46 There's an old dairy, hay shed, stables, various poultry sheds and pig and goat pens. the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of goats > [noun] > house or pen for goats 1809 Visct. Valentia II. 229 In the evening he went and measured a base from the north-western mosque to a goat-shed half a mile distant. 1851 9 2978 Our guide at length conducted us to a goat-shed. 1987 T. Pratchett (1990) 50 A nest of mice in the back of the dresser were kindly but firmly ejected into the goatshed. 2015 (Nexis) 27 July The goat sheds and chicken coops are empty and the pond is without fish. 1775 R. Chandler lxxxii. 273 I discovered a goat-stand in a dale. 1822 S. Burder I. 354 Some of the flock or herd, (belonging to a goat-stand on the top of a hill, near him,) were often by the fountain. 1908 8 248 A goat stand, where cat fleas were numerous. 2009 C. Kimball ii. 44/2 You can use a goat stand, which allows you to stand upright while trimming. 1863 R. W. Buchanan 42 I, Pan,..look'd down; and lo, Goat-legs, goat-thighs, goat-feet, uncouth and rude. 1922 B. Ravenel Intervals in Aug. 211 The cynical, musical fingers That rest on the goat-thighs. Let me give him, O Pan, All in the way of love. 2012 S. E. Katz xii. 343 I got the idea to cure deer meat in this prosciutto style from tasting a wonderful cured goat thigh at Terra Madre. b. Objective. 1862 28 Feb. 5/3 Withdraw from such woods all labourers, shepherds, goat-herders, and all cattle now thereon. 1913 30 Sept. 30/2 Just over the border in Mexico goat herders are not nearly so liable to the disease. 2014 (Nexis) 7 Dec. Goat herders in Inner Mongolia are shortchanged, selling their goat hair for as little as $2.30 a kilo. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault iii. li. 547 Goates haire must be well mended.., according to the manner which we haue set downe in the first Booke, in the Chapter of the Goat-keeper [Fr. Cheurier]. 1723 II. 225 Goat-keepers, Geese-drivers, and Grinders of Corn. 1853 A. Soyer xvi. 148 Goat-keepers appeared in their eyes invested with an august and sacred character. 1981 J. Halliday & J. Halliday in K. Thear & A. Fraser (1988) iv. 77 You might consider keeping a male goat for stud and making his services available to other goatkeepers. 2014 (Nexis) 25 Oct. Foot rot can be a problem for goat keepers. c. Instrumental. ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer ix. 135 We Cyclops care not for your Goat-fed Ioue [Gk. Διὸς αἰγιόχου]. 1859 July 2/1 Herodotus' story of the goat-fed children. ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer iv. 67 Pray the seed of Goat-nurst Iupiter [Gk. Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο], (Diuine Athenia) to preserue your sonne; And she will saue him from confusion. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer II. ix. 330 We Cyclops are a race above Those air-bred people, and their goat-nurs'd Jove [Gk. Διὸς αἰγιόχου]. 1856 E. B. Browning (1857) 161 The critics say that epics have died out With Agamemnon and the goat-nursed gods. 1994 R. H. Sprinkle 167 Goat-nursed babies did relatively well. d. Parasynthetic. 1604 T. Middleton sig. F2v A Goate-bearded Vsurer. ?1799 3 8 Come, wanton-eyed frolic, and sport in my train; Let goat-bearded wisdom read lectures in vain. 1876 H. W. Longfellow 29 Old sea-faring men come in, goat-bearded gray, and with double chin. 1961 S. J. Perelman (1987) 53 A goat-bearded stripling clad in chamois raised his hand. 2015 (Nexis) 27 Mar. 32 A goat-bearded, gimlet-eyed witch-hunter called Master Gregory. 1598 J. Florio at Peto Goat-eied, rouling-eied. 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius xxix. §290 Hee..that looketh with his eyes drawn together, goat-eyed [L. Cocles]. 1824 C. Swan tr. I. lxxvi. 267 The goat-eyed man of physic acquiesced. 2005 (Nexis) 22 May a3 No one wants to vote for Stephen Harper because, apparently, he's some sort of goat-eyed devil king. 1600 S. Rowlands sig. C6v Enter Goat-footed Satyres, butt like Rammes. 1776 R. Chandler xii. 59 The goat-footed god quitted his habitation on the mountain. 1894 W. E. Gladstone tr. Horace iii. xix. 4 Goat-footed [L. capripedum], point-eared Satyrs too. 1946 Feb. 46/2 At the climax the scene is invaded by Pan's band of goat-footed demons. 2010 45 163/1 A figurehead, goat-footed Pan is playing his pipes in an arbor of vine. 1701 E. Ward 12 My Goat-Headed Landlord. 1896 A. Lillie (ed. 2) Pref. 17 Where was the logic of the pact in blood with a goat-headed monstrosity? 1929 19 83 A shepherd..glances back over his shoulder towards a goat-headed Pan in hot pursuit of him. 2014 (Nexis) 7 Jan. The statue features a goat-headed Satan sitting in a throne with children next to it. 1794 J. Lettice xix. 338 We were most comfortably regaled with goat-soup, inferior only to that of turtle. 1873 15 Nov. 378/3 I'll have a dish of that goat stew. 1952 26 June 9/4 Many persons who cheerfully buy and eat a ‘meat’ pie would hesitate to do either if the article in question were labelled ‘horse pie’, ‘pony pie’ or ‘goat pie’. 1997 C. B. Divakaruni 283 Special tonight, goat curry with parathas. 2011 12 May 18/2 House-made pastas reflect his pedigree, such as cavatelli with goat sausage and fava beans. C3. a. With the first element in the form goat. Many of these compounds have parallel forms with the first element in the genitive or genitive plural: see Compounds 3b, and also headwords, as goat's beard n., goat's foot n., etc.Some Old English instances in gāte probably show the (strong feminine) genitive singular form. Early Middle English (and occasionally later) instances in gate, etc., may show reflexes of such forms (or of the Old English genitive plural gāta). See etymological note, and see especially goat cheese n., goat hair adj. and n., goat horn n.the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Rupicaprinae > genus Nemorhaedus (goral) 1806 II. 325/2 The goat antelope of Linnæus..has straight, slender, distinctly annulated horns. 1894 R. Lydekker II. 258 Nearly allied to the gorals are the..serows, or goat-antelopes. 1925 C. Wells 226 The serow or goat antelope occurs in fair numbers in remote or almost untraversable localities. 1978 P. Matthiessen (1987) ii. 79 He locates two Himalayan tahr, an archaic animal that is a transitional form between goat-antelopes and goats. 2010 Spring 96/1 Tatra chamois, an endangered species of goat-antelope found only in this part of the world. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker (1884) I. 703/14 Hoc stirillum, a gaytt berde. 1713 tr. G. Bruno (new ed.) i. ii. 24 All those who are truly and originally Gods, and have a Head for Counsel; excluding all Sheep-heads, Ox-Horns, Goat-Beards, Asses-Ears, [etc.]. 1824 T. Carlyle tr. J. W. von Goethe II. viii. x. 281 What call you the goat-beard there, with the crown on, who is standing at the foot of the bed, making such a rueful face about his sick son? 1836 27 Nov. 756/2 Her mane like goat-beards woven! 1918 Jan. 84 The newspapers display cartoons of the farmer, with a goat beard, chewing a straw and mounted on a pile of coin sacks. 2014 (Nexis) 26 Dec. Bad hair. Dodgy goat-beard. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Cerambycidae > member of genus Cerambyx (goat chafer) 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in 137 Since..we finde so noble a scent in the Tulip-Fly, and Goat-Beetle. [Margin] The long and tender green Capricornus rarely found. 1799 2 (at cited word) These Goat Beetles all appear to be natives of America. 1822 J. Latham III. 369 They also attack the trees for the sake of the insects contained within,..to get at the worms of the goat beetles. 1922 26 111/2 Specimens..were sent to a Washington government department, where it was identified as the Capricorn beetle, more commonly known as the Goat beetle. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Cerambycidae > member of genus Cerambyx (goat chafer) 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in (rev. ed.) 1006 Capricornus; the Germans call it Holtzback; the English, Goat-chafer. 1792 J. Belknap III. 181 Goat Chaffer, Cerambyx coriarius. 1830 M. Donovan II. iii. 207 The silk-cotton tree worm..is..the caterpillar of a large capricorn beetle, or goat-chafer. 1911 IV. (rev. ed.) Goat-chafer, the favorite food of the goatsucker. the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > varieties of cheese OE tr. (Vitell.) vii. 256 Wið eagena hætan & stice, niwe gate cyse [?a1200 Harl. 6258B gate cuse; L. caseus caprae], ofer geseted mid þa eagbræwas. OE tr. (Vitell.) vii. 256 Wið fotadle, gate cyse niwe on gelegd þæt sar geliðegað. 1800 F. R. Ricklefs II. 268/2 Ziegenkäse, goat cheese. 1893 E. H. Barker 311 She gave me some excellent goat-cheese. 1983 6 Apr. c6/1 The cheese counter not only carries what have become the standard supermarket goat cheeses, Bucheron and Montrachet, but it also stocks goat cheese in spiced oil. 1986 June 84/1 If duck breast with..creamy goat cheese sauce is among the choices, forget everything I've just mentioned. 1991 Autumn 43/3 Pecan crusted rack of lamb with quinoa and goat cheese gratin. 2009 Nov. 63 A salad of greens, sliced pears, and crostini topped with a melted, Italian goat cheese. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker (1884) I. 570/22 Caper,..a gotbukke. Capra, a gootdoo...Capra, a gotdo. 1918 23 Nov. 4 I don't know of anyone willing to sell a goat doe to kid in the winter. 2010 (Nexis) 23 Oct. 5 Mr Lee said it was not uncommon for a goat doe to have triplets, and quite common for them to have twins. society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] > specific 1592 T. Nashe (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. G4 The seuenth [kind of drunkenness] is Goate drunke, when in his drunkennes he hath no minde but on Lecherie. 1601 J. Marston et al. iii. sig. D4v Mounsieurs Goat drunke, and he shrugges, and skrubbes, and hees it for a wench. a1634 J. Day Peregrinatio Scholastica in (1881) 52 In theise two of amorous behaviour, that like hot sparrows..consume and melt away in dalliance, the goates blood is predominate; and such we call Goate-Drunk. c1985 R. Harbinson in B. Penrose & S. Freeman (1986) xiii. 311 As the ancients would put it, Anthony [Blunt] never got ape-drunk (when men make fools of themselves in their cups) but he did get goat-drunk (when men become amorous in their cups). a1593 C. Marlowe (1594) sig. A3 My men like Satyres grazing on the lawnes, Shall with their Goate feete daunce an antick hay. ?1614 W. Drummond Sextain: Sith gone is my Delight in Nymphes of the Forrests..shewing your beautie's Treasure To goate-feete Syluans. 1705 tr. Horace Ode ii. xix, in J. Beaumont iv. 173 The prick'd up Ears of Goat-feet Satyrs. 1863 R. W. Buchanan 42 I, Pan,..look'd down; and lo, Goat-legs, goat-thighs, goat-feet, uncouth and rude. 1920 E. Sitwell 107 Their goat-feet clattering to the oaten tune cools the heat of noon like water gurgling. 2005 A. S. Wohl tr. G. P. Bellori 87/1 The savage god stands upright on his goat-feet. 1420–1 in N. S. B. Gras (1918) 502 (MED) lx dossenis gotefelles. 1458 in J. T. Gilbert (1889) I. 299 No maner foreyne man..schold not..by no maner hydys: der hydys, gotfell, schepfell, ne lamfell. 1569 Act 11 Elizabeth I c. 10 in (1765) I. 350 For every such pound of..sheepfell, calfefell, and goatfell, foure pence sterling. 1874 W. S. Lindsay I. 444 No mention is made of France, as England was then engaged in hostilities with that country; but from Spain English merchants imported figs, raisins, wine,..wool, wadmolle, goat fell. 2009 G. Gilman 105 There were witches all round him: men and crones, in black and rags of black, and goat fells, stiff with blood. 1683 J. Dryden Life Plutarch 123 in J. Dryden et al. tr. Plutarch I Upon that they made a Feast of Triumph, call'd the Nones of the Goats, because of the wild Fig-tree, call'd by the Romans, Caprificus, or the Goat-Fig. 1835 D. Booth 106 The common Figtree..when in its wild state is called Caprificus or Goat-fig. a1933 J. A. Thomson (1934) II. 1149 The Smyrna figs planted in California did not succeed until goat-figs and wasps were also domiciled there. 2010 R. W. Matthews & J. R. Matthews (ed. 2) iv. 174 (caption) Fig wasps develop in the ovule of the short-necked female flowers that pack the inside of goat figs. the world > animals > fish > miscellaneous types > [noun] > goat-fish or upenus maculatus the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > member of genus Phycis (fork-beard) the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Balistidae (trigger-fish) > Balistes (file-fish) the world > animals > fish > miscellaneous types > [noun] 1613 S. Hutton tr. J. M. de Franchis 2 The Dolphin, Goat-fish [L. Capricornum], and fierce-hearted Lyon Take the full influence of their flaming spheres. 1634 T. Carew 9 Downe from her azure concave, thus I charme..The Centaure, the horn'd Goatfish Capricorne. 1657 N. Culpeper & W. Rowland tr. J. Johnstone iii. 9/1 Sea and River hanters..Scaly, as the Salmon, the Pike, the Bream, the Alosa, Ziga of the River Albis, the Mullet, Goat fish, Sturgeon, and Galeus of Rhodes. 1864 J. Couch III. 125 Goatfish. The Greater Forkbeard, Phycis furcatus. 1885 A. Brassey 302 There were..bright, scarlet fish, known locally as ‘red mullet’, although they are really, I believe, goat-fish, with a little tuft under their lower jaw. 2006 P. Brown iii. 37/2 The Goatfish. Capricorn is a complex sign, half goat and half fish. 2009 (Hawaiian Airlines) Feb. 78/2 There are enough goatfish to allow their use as bait for the big pelagic 'ahi. the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > faun the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Pan 1622 J. Taylor sig. F A Nimph, a fawne, or goatefoot Satyre. 1768 H. Downman 16 The goat-foot Pan playing a merry fit. 1819 L. Hunt II. 37 A troop of goat-foot shapes came trampling after. 1898 G. Meredith 6 To veil an evil leer, And bid a goatfoot trip it like a fay. 1906 13 Aug. 4/4 It was the hour of Pan. I could almost think I saw the goat-foot playing his pipes by the brook. 1912 R. Brooke in June 3 To glimpse a Naiad's reedy head, Or hear the Goat-foot piping low. 1925 E. Sitwell 9 The goat-foot satyr waves. 1991 D. Ashcroft-Nowicki iii. i. 93 Pan is the goat-foot God of foothills, forests and woodland plains. 1908 20 Mar. 1/2 The La Salle lady..disposed of her opponent.., putting her away with a wicked left to the solar plexus, followed by a goat-getter to the point of the jaw with her right. 1911 C. E. Van Loan iv. 105 The men of the Gamecocks were specialists, welded by a baseball genius into the snappiest, scrappiest collection of fence breakers, umpire baiters, and ‘goat getters’ in professional baseball. 1967 Jan. 45/1 In this day everyone is an expert, but the real goat-getter is the breezy one with the nasal voice that carries all over the dock. 2014 (Scottish ed.) (Nexis) 10 Mar. 14 Many thanks for all your correspondence stating what gets your goat about modern living. Alan Thomassen..speaks for many when he cites his major goat-getter as bad manners. 1908 23 Oct. (Sports section) 6 (header) Some goat-getting methods employed by foxy fighters. 1910 July 7/2 The most pitiful story of goat-getting in the prize ring concerns the king of all pugilists of a decade ago..who was very devoted to his wife. 1950 14 Aug. (Sports section) 21/2 On Friday night Stanky worked his goat-getting stunt four times against Seminick. 1984 A. J. Frankel i. 10 This experience with his parents leads to a very common contingency in families: a ‘goat getting’ pattern where children learn to effectively get their parents' goats when they are angry. 2002 19 Dec. 15/2 Out of 11 mini-movies..one contribution was surely entitled to do some goat-getting. the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Pan ?a1656 J. Poole (1657) 440 He that first taught to joyne the pipes with wax. Arcadia's halfe goat God.] 1708 C. Gildon II. v. vi. 178 The Goat-God not ignorant of her Fortune, calling Psyche quite spent and wounded to him, sooths her Troubles with this kind Discourse. 1821 Jan. 32/2 His [sc. Vickramadittya's] name appears to comprehend nothing more than Buk-ree-ma-deuta, ‘the great goat god’, i.e. Capricornus. 1890 Apr. 412 Bhadrapada, the blessed foot, was the name of the goat-god. 1896 F. B. Jevons xxiii. 351 The Satiric chorus..wore goat skins..to mark their intimate relation with the goat-god. 1968 W. G. Gray vi. 84 Most advanced modern people have grown far ahead of the old crude types of God such as the Goat-God, Thunder-God, and so forth. 2014 P. Trynka x. 319 The point was to contact Pan, the goat god, who was sexuality itself. 1882 2 Sept. One of these weedy goat grasses has now been shown with great probability to be the wild form of our cultivated wheat. 1929 32 84 Fields have been visited which contained spots of 5 to 35 acres which were solid stands of goat grass. 1993 R. L. Zimdahl vi. 100 (caption) The upright, narrow unbranched leaves of jointed goatgrass. 2005 M. Nesbitt in G. Prance & M. Nesbitt iv. 53 Genes contributed from goatgrass (Aegilops) give bread wheat greater cold hardiness than most wheats. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > hair or wool OE Ælfric (Claud.) Pref. 79 To ðam weorce brohte ðæt folc gold & seolfor..; sum[e] eac brohton gate hær, swa swa seo æ bebead... Ðæt gate hær getacnode ða stiðan dædbote ðæra manna. OE tr. (Vitell.) vii. 254 Wið cyrnla sare, smeoc þone man mid gate hærum. 1418–19 in L. Wright (1996) 163 Pro Gotehere empt'. 1643 J. Lightfoot 43 (heading) Of the Goate-haire Curtaines. 1747 R. Campbell xxviii. 206 They [sc. wig-makers] have a Method..of putting off Horse and Goat Hair for Human Hair. 1895 Spring & Summer 102/3 Infants' white goat hair brushes, fine and soft. 1960 29 Mar. (Suppl.) 4/1 A multilayer goat-hair fleece. 1967 J. Rathbone iii. 27 I have plenty of kilims and goat-hair rugs. 1974 X. 825/2 The large Yomud carpets are entirely of wool or of goat hair. 2010 (Nexis) 7 May Many of the area's residents, called Ahl Al Jabal, or people of the mountain, have traded in their goat hair tents in favour of stronger, canvas material. 1550 R. Sherry tr. Erasmus Declam. Chyldren in sig. Nviiv Beastes..not common to be seene in euerye place, as is..Tragelaphus, a goate hart [L. tragelaphus]. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny I. viii. xxxiii. 214 Of the same kind [sc. as a deer] is the Goat-hart, and differing onely in the beard and long shag about the shoulders, which they call Tragelaphis [L. tragelaphon]. 1706 (new ed.) Goat-hart, or Stone-buck, a wild Beast. OE tr. (Vitell.) vii. 254 Nim gate horn [?a1200 Harl. 6258B gate horn; L. cornu caprae] & lege to fyre, þæt he byrne. OE tr. (Vitell.) vii. 254 To slæpe, gate horn under heafod geled, weccan he on slæpe gecyrreþ. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xl. 1303 A goot horne brende is holsomliche do to þe noseþerles. c1550 (1979) vi. 52 Ane pipe maid of ane gait horne. 1683 J. Turner ii. iii. 44 Pyrrhus King of Epirus; was known by his Crest of Goate Horns. ?1720 A. Peden 27 I will not give a Goat-horn for it all in comparison of that Noble Satisfaction I shall have in the Morning of the Resurrection. 1894 14 151 Juno Lanuvina, Hera's Italian counterpart, is normally draped in a goat's skin with long goat-horns. 1910 July 305/2 The handle [of the one-bladed jackknife] is made of goat horn. 2014 J. Montagu x. 179/1 It is a single-curved goat horn with five fingerholes and a small suspension hole on the convex side. 1587 A. Golding tr. Solinus lxix. sig. Gg.ii The fourth [of the Iles of the Hesperides] is called Capraria. [margin] Goateland. a1625 J. Fletcher Pilgrim iv. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher (1647) sig. Hhhhh4/2 He is a mountaineere, a man of Goteland. 1748 J. Keogh Etymol. Treat. in 114 Dunegoury, goat-land. 1880 A. Milroy in 5 281 Dr Joyce..shows, in his Irish names of places, that the word [sc. the place name Gowrie] is originally Gabhran, pronounced Gowran, meaning goat-land, the place where the goats fed. 1927 J. E. Harrison (ed. 2) 206 Attica, stony Attica, is a goat-land. 1983 D. Bogarde i. 15 It was mostly what I call goat-land, that is to say, broom and thyme, coarse grass, jagged boulders with here and there boggy patches of brilliant green. 1993 I. Watson xv. 195 The terrain around Outo was severe and rugged—goat-land. a1275 (?a1189) Marie de France (Harl. 978) f. 151v Gotelef lapelent en engleis Cheurefoil le nument en franceis. 1829 J. C. Loudon 170 Caprifolium. A poetical name, signifying goat-leaf; that is to say, a leaf which climbs like a goat. Chevrefeuille, Fr. 1904 J. M. Maxwell 119 The pale perfoliate Lonicera..is sufficiently familiar to own a folk-name, that of ‘Goat leaf’, whether in allusion to its feats of climbing, or the partiality of these animals for its leaves. 2007 D. Squire (2008) 45 Goat-leaf Honeysuckle. See Lonicera caprifolium. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > special movements performed by trained horse > [noun] > types of jump > capriole 1658 E. Phillips at Capriole A caper in dancing, also a term in Horsemanship, called the Goatleap. 1717 (ed. 2) at Capriole The Goat-leap, when a Horse at the full height of his Leap, yerks or strikes out his Hind-Legs. 1846 W. M. Buchanan 196/2 The goat-leap, capriolus; the leap which a horse makes in the same place without advancing. 1728 R. Bradley Goat Marjoram, is Tragoriganum. 1755 S. Johnson Goat marjoram, the same with Goatsbeard. [Also in later dictionaries.] the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > milk from goats eOE (Royal) (1865) i. xxxix. 100 Nim fenompran & þa smalan clatan, wyl on gate meolce & supe. OE tr. (Vitell.) i. 32 [Ge]nim..cole gate meolc [?a1200 Harl. 6258B gate meolc]. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. lxvi. 1329 Moche goot mylk ydronke by himself renneþ and cruddeþ. ?a1425 (Egerton) (1889) 27 (MED) Putte þerto gayte mylke. 1726 R. Wodrow (1843) III. 266 In June most of the ministers of Glasgow were out of town at the goat-milk. 1771 T. Smollett III. 11 Dr. Gregory..advises the high-land air, and the use of goat-milk whey. 1870 2nd Ser. 6 329 It is prepared from the whey of cow and goat milk. 1946 M. Moore Let. 29 Oct. in (1997) 462 And nearly half the nourishment Mother has is a specialty of some kind—dehydrated goat-milk, vegetable iron brewers' yeast and so on. 2015 (Nexis) 14 Sept. b2 Visitors at this family-owned Peconic farm will see what goes into making its award-winning goat milk cheese. the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Caprimulgiformes (nightjars, etc.) > [noun] > family Caprimulgidae > member of genus Caprimulgus > caprimulgus europaeus (nightjar) 1611 R. Cotgrave Caprimulge, a Goat-milker. 1706 (new ed.) Goat-milker or Goat-sucker, a kind of Owl. 1911 E. Ingersoll 165 It is to this great mouth, quite big enough to take in the teat of a goat..that these birds owe their ancient name caprimulgus,—a goat-milker. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Cossidae > cossus ligniperda (goat moth) 1742 F. Wilkes Pl. iv The goat moth. The Caterpillar feeds on the Willow Wood, goes into Chrysalis in May, the Moth Comes forth in June. 1859 R. Thompson 533 The caterpillars of the goat-moth (Cossus ligniperda). a1933 J. A. Thomson (1934) I. xiii. 334 Bag-worms..belong to three families of moths—the Tineids..; the Cossids, which includes the goat-moths; and especially the Psychids. 1974 W. Condry x. 109 Another sizeable caterpillar, that of the goat moth, does not eat ash leaves but burrows into its trunk. 2002 16 214/1 The same control procedures may be utilised with the Goat-moth. the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Caprimulgiformes (nightjars, etc.) > [noun] > family Caprimulgidae > member of genus Caprimulgus > caprimulgus europaeus (nightjar) 1766 T. Pennant ii. 97 Fern Owl, Goat owl, or Goatsucker. 1849 New Ser. 3 7/2 The European Goatsucker, variously called the Night-Hawk, Dove-Hawk, Churn-Owl, Goat-Owl, Wheel-Bird, and Night-Jar. 1984 W. B. Lockwood Goat Owl, a name from Glos. and Somerset for the Nightjar. society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > habitually used by animals > by specific animals 1799 Apr. 266 We now climbed up the goat-path, which was so very steep and narrow. 1897 13 Apr. 5/7 Here..the only roads are goat-paths in the mountains. 2002 C. Knox tr. E. van Heerden i. vi. 29 One side of him wanted to escape, as he'd done earlier, up the goat path. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Dict. in sig. Aivv Goat-Peaches are Peaches that are very hairy. 1724 S. Switzer et al. 90 The Chevereuse..or Goat-Peach, may worthily be brought into the Productions of this Month. 1847 G. W. Johnson & J. Barnes (Gardener's Monthly Vol.) 7 Ripe in September..Chevereuse, or Goat Peach. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > capsicum > types of a1726 H. Barham (1794) 30 These are called goat-peppers, for they smell rank like a ram-goat. 1836 VI. 274/1 A much hotter species is the Capsicum fruticosum or goat-pepper, a native of the East Indies. 1903 20 71/1 Capsicum Frutescens, the Spur or Goat Pepper, produces a small pod very acrid in its nature. 1993 Feb. 137/3 Pieces of meat simmered in a broth laced with lime and fiery goat pepper. 2009 D. DeWitt & P. W. Bosland 326/1 Goat pepper. Local name for Capsicum chinense varieties in the Bahamas and some parts of Africa. 1830 J. C. Loudon 282 (table) Goat-root. 1910 F. M. Webster in (U.S. Dept. Agric.) No. 119. 3 Besides red clover and alfalfa, the species is known to attack Scotch broom..and goat root. 1996 56 22/1 Goat-root Ononis natrix was the species that yielded the highest concentrations of the ore-forming metals of the region. the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > other leguminous plants 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i. in sig. Vv We shall not now treat of Goat-rue [L. De ruta capraria]. 1756 P. Browne ii. ii. 289 Galega... The shrubby Goat-rue, with round ash-coloured leaves. 1814 J. Lunan I. 327 Browne calls it the small herbaceous goat-rue. 1981 105 288 American goat-rue Tephrosia virginiana. 2002 D. Raffelock et al. x. 223 A wide variety of herbs work to increase milk production. Try goat rue, blessed thistle, [etc.]. the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [noun] > Aegean Sea 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid (new ed.) ix. f. 117v Miletas swiftly past The Gotesea [L. Aegaeas..aquas]. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a tragedy 1789 T. Twining in tr. Aristotle 72 note 7 Tragedy, i.e., according to the most usual derivation of the word, the goat-singing. 1928 48 265 Thespis led the Attic goat-singing. society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > hymn or song of praise > specific hymn 1678 T. Rymer 12 The Priests sung an Anthem to their god Dionysus, whilst the Goat stood at his Altar to be sacrific'd: And this was call'd the Goat-song or Tragedy. 1721 C. Gildon 152 The religious Goat-Song was perform'd at the end of their vintages, in honour of Bacchus. 1822 P. B. Shelley Pref. p. viii The only goat-song which I have yet attempted. 1900 J. B. Bury (1904) v. 201 The goat song of the days of Pisistratus grew into the tragedy of Aeschylus. 1982 (Nexis) 20 Nov. The festival of the Great Dionysia of the City..was characterized by the competing choruses of satyrs, clad in goatskins, who danced around the altar of the god and sang their ‘goat songs’. 1999 S. Rushdie (2000) x. 297 Ormus Cama, finally, cannot believe that he has walked on to the stage of some fearsome contemporary goat song. ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) f. 53 A Gayt spech, egloga. the world > the universe > star > kind of star > giant > [noun] > Capella 1632 W. Forster tr. W. Oughtred i. 86 (table) The Goat starre. 1850 2 132/2 A line drawn from these stars through the middle of the belt will pass the southern horn of the Bull to the Goat Star, Capella. 1894 W. E. Gladstone tr. Horace iii. vii. 6 Him wild Goat-stars [L. insana Caprae sidera] vexed. 2005 M. Pope Osborne iv. 39 Jack couldn't tell which star was the Goat Star. 1597 J. Gerard i. 160 The male Goate stones haue leaues like to those of the garden Lillie. 1657 W. Coles cclxxviii It is called..in English Satyrion, Orchis, Doggestones, Goatestones, Foolestones [etc.]. 1728 R. Bradley at Orchis The lesser, but true Goat-stones. The smell of this Orchis causeth its Name, which nearer resembles the rank Smell of a Goat. 1886 Goatstones. The Orchis hircina, from the resemblance of their roots to the testicles of a goat. 1953 D. Eastwood 27 The roots of the Lizard Orchis or Goat-stones boiled in milk and eaten with white pepper were particularly efficient. 2006 L. Adkins (ed. 2) 134 The English variously called it ‘fool's ballocks’, ‘hares ballocks’, and ‘goat stones’. society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > habitually used by animals > by specific animals 1775 H. P. Wyndham 126 In order to avoid the goat track of our morning ride, we returned over the sands of the Traeth Bychan, which are passable only at low water. 1889 C. Edwardes 153 We at length..hit upon the goat-track. 1974 W. H. Jackson & E. Dassow xvi. 132 We found fresh goat tracks near our camp site. 1983 D. H. Chadwick iv. 68 A late-melting snowbank and the imprint of goat tracks on the moist ground beside it. 2006 (Nexis) 23 June (Final ed.) a49 A United Nations plan to transform 900 kilometres of goat tracks and chewed-up dirt roads into blacktopped routes that will link remote communities to the country's main highway. the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > whey 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière xii. v. 355 Take of Goat Whey four or five pints: the juyce of fresh Lemmons four ounces [etc.]. [No corresponding sentence in the Latin original.] 1772 W. Buchan (ed. 2) xlvii. 643 I have frequently known the disease return with all its virulence after a course of goat-whey. 1880 E. Gutmann iv. ii. 292 It has been contended that goat whey has a special beneficial action on consumptive patients. 1989 102 134 An enterprising local artist organized the local dairy farmers to offer goat whey cures as early as the 1810s. 2009 13 Dec. 42/2 The pig..had been fed strictly local produce, bread and goat whey. the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > other types of willow 1787 T. Pennant 50 This animal feeds on..the grey and the goat willows. 1861 A. Pratt V. 99 Great Round-leaved Sallow, or Goat-Willow. 1894 3rd Ser. 5 240 For coppice, probably Salix caprea, the Goat Willow or English Palm, would be best. 1950 8 Apr. 7/4 The catkin-flowers of the sallow or goat willow, carried in processions on Palm Sunday. 2001 Feb. 57/1 To lure these birds to your garden, grow plenty of insect-attractant plants, such as goat willow, dogwood and guelder rose. the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > that which is non-existent > a thing that does not exist a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil (1959) viii. Prol. 48 Sum glasteris, and thai gang at all for gayt woll. 1749 23 Nov. (advt.) 10 Bales Goat Wool. 1848 J. H. Stocqueler 194/1 Puttoo, a species of coarser and thicker manufacture of the refuse shawl goat-wool, mixed with the long hairs. 1998 O. Handa 83 That made the goat-wool increasingly expensive in comparison to other varieties. 2004 (Nexis) 26 Oct. d4 Nearly $16.5 million of that [sc. bilateral trade between Canada and Mongolia] is made up of Mongolian exports to Canada, mainly the traditional Mongolian products of cashmere cloth and products made from goat wool. b. With the first element in the genitive or genitive plural. Many of these compounds have parallel forms with the first element in the form goat: see Compounds 1a, Compounds 3a.1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny II. xxi. xiii. 94 There is an hearbe called Ægolethron in Greeke, which killeth horses verely, but Goats most of all, feeding thereupon; and therefore it tooke that name.] 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in (rev. ed.) v. 909 The honey is venomous..in the flowers of Goats-bane [L. ægolethri] fading with the wetness of the spring, for then the flowers contract that hurtfull venome. 1840 J. Paxton 145/2 Goat's-bane, see Aconitum tragoctonum. 1889 Goat's-bane, the plant wolf's bane, Aconitum Lycoctonum. the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > varieties of cheese 1588 D. Archdeacon tr. 69 Prouisions... Quintails of Bacon, 6500... Goates cheese, 3458. quintaux [etc.]. 1607 E. Topsell 257 Goats cheese also represseth all dolors and punctions. 1795 A. Aufrere tr. K. U. von Salis Marschlins 147 I tasted some new-made goats cheese, which was extremely good. 1895 30 Nov. 569/1 They know enough Greek to buy milk and goats' cheese. 1908 Mar. 577/2 He will have to content himself with olives, brown bread, a goats' cheese. 1989 P. Mayle (1990) 12 We ate the green salad with knuckles of bread fried in garlic and olive oil, we ate the plump round crottins of goat's cheese. 2004 31 Mar. 37/1 Highlights on a Modern European menu included an unfeasibly light, herby goat's cheese soufflé. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens ii. lvi. 222 The third kinde [of Orchis]..is called..in English Hares Balloxe and Goates Cullions. 1611 R. Cotgrave Couillon de bouc. Goats stones, Goats cullions; (an hearbe.) c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 1631 (MED) With gotis hornys and with mylke and blod. 1526 ccclxxx. sig. V.ii/1 Serapin wt a gotes horne is good against the somerynge euyll and causeth to snese, and clenseth the stomake of flewmatyke moystnesse. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny II. 341 The ashes of a goats horn incorporat into an vnguent with oile of myrtles, keeps those from diaphoretical sweats who are anointed therwith. 1755 T. Sharp i. vi. 149 Eusebius also mentions an idol dedicated to the Sun..having a Ram's head with Goat's horns. 1838 222 The Cornucopia, when perfect, ought to display a Goat's horn made into a cup, in which are seen various fruits, flowers, and foliage. 1884 J. H. Wylie I. xiii. 240 They sat out on the rocks, fishing with lines made of goat's hair, and hooks made from goat's horn. 1924 Nov. 35 The sudden movement above took the snake's attention from Ru just at the critical moment, and when the serpent looked up in time to receive a vicious jab in the head by the sharp goat's horn, its surprise was evident. 2008 A. Nozedar 58/1 Amalthea fed the infant Zeus a drink of goat's milk and was given the brimming goat's horn as a reward. society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [noun] > movement > specific movements 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ 3 O how my Palfrey fetcht me uppe the Curuetto, and daunced the Goats jumpe. 1599 T. Nashe 36 Heralius..skippeth and danseth the goats jumpe on the earth for ioy of his [sc. Hyperion's] entrance. the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > honeysuckle or woodbine 1526 cxl. sig. I.iv/1 Caprifolium sive daprificus that is cheruell or gotes leues. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. (rev. ed.) ii. xlvi. 230 Goats leafe..will grow euerie where, if it be not annoyed with wind. 1777 W. Whitehead 10 Woodbine. The Caprifolium or Goat's Leaf of the ancients and of Tournefort. 1841 J. H. Fennell 492 Their [sc. goats] most favourite food appears to be the leaves of the honeysuckle—hence the French call it chévrefeuille, or goat's-leaf. 1861 P. Lankester 71 The Perfoliate Honeysuckle, or Goat's-leaf. 1903 G. B. Emerson (ed. 5) II. 403 To the first section also belong the Woodbine or Common Honeysuckle,..a native of Europe, very generally introduced into this country; and the Goat's Leaf Honeysuckle. 1982 D. Streeter & R. Richardson 98 Honeysuckle is one of the most beautiful of our midsummer hedgerow flowers... Like a mountain goat it leaps and binds beyond the places where mortals dare to climb, so it has been called ‘goat's leaf’. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > special movements performed by trained horse > [noun] > types of jump > capriole ?1561 T. Blundeville ii. xxviii. sig. M.iiiv (heading) Howe to teache your horse to do the Capriole or Goates leape. 1623 H. Cockeram Capriole, the leaping of a horse aboue ground, called by horsemen the goats leape. 1753 I. ii. 45 The next Lesson you shall teach your Horse..is the Capriolle, or Goat's Leap. the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > marjoram 1597 J. Gerard ii. 544 Tragoriganum or Goates Marierome, is very good against the wambling of the stomacke. a1654 N. Culpeper tr. J. Prevost (1656) 96 Oxymel..must be added to Decoctions convenient, wherein must be boyled some of these cutting Herbs, and scouring, namely, Hysop,..Time, Goats Marjoram. 1756 J. Greive tr. Celsus v. xi. 239 For discussing any collections, which have been formed in any part of the body, the following things are very powerful,..figs, goat's marjoram, seeds of lint, [etc.]. 1901 22 Dec. 548/2 Thymus tragoriganum (1640). Goat's Marjoram. the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > flesh of other animals > [noun] 1593 G. Harvey 45 Better the dogges-meate of Agrippa, or Cattes-meate of Poggius, then the swines-meate of Martial, or goates-meate of Arretine. 1698 E. Bellamy tr. J. Huarte vii. 106 He brought the Kid into the Fields, almost Starved to Death, and smelling on several sorts of Herbs, he fed only on that which was Goats-meat. 1815 A. Yosy II. 18 People..were content..to live on goats meat. 1905 A. E. W. Gleichen I. i. viii. 194 Mutton and goats' meat are usually only eaten at festival dinners and ceremonies. 2005 11 Feb. 2/6 Goat's meat is eaten as a delicacy in many parts of the south of France. the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > milk from goats a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. xxxv. 383 He seiþ þat gothes milke [L. lac caprinum]..helpiþ hem þat haueþ ethik. c1440 14 Welle þam wele in gayttes mylke. 1530 J. Palsgrave 226/2 Gottesmylke, laict de chieure. 1654 No. 86. 475 If any Lady be married, and cannot have a Childe in 3 quarters after, if she have but a longing Desire to be a Mother, let her eat to her Breakfast a new-laid Egge in a spoonful of Goats Milk. 1717 A. Pope tr. Homer III. xi. 856 The Nymph of Form divine..With Goat's-milk Cheese a flav'rous Taste bestows. 1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon II. 65 Goat's milk is a very rich white fluid..with a peculiar disagreeable odour arising from the hircic acid which is present in the butter. 1944 C. Porter What a Crazy Way to Spend Sunday in R. Kimball (1983) 246 What a crazy way to spend Sunday, having lunch with the bunch on a barge, and a lunch consisting of no less than garlic soup, goat's milk, and frijoles. 1986 (Nexis) 21 Dec. f2 Gjetost may be made solely from goat's milk or from a mixture of 10 percent goat's milk whey and 90 percent cow's milk whey. 2004 11 Sept. (Midlands ed.) 35/3 We dither in the coffee shop over the iced latte with hazelnut essence or the grande mochaccino with skimmed goat's milk. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens ii. lvi, 222 Rootes of Standergrasses (but especially of Hares Balloxe, or Goates Orchis [Du. Bocxcullekens, Fr. Couillon de bouq]) eaten..doth, [etc.]. 1777 S. Robson 145 Goat's Orchis... Bulbs undivided, upper petals connivent, lowest trifid, reflected, crenate, spur short. the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > marjoram 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens ii. lxix. 238 (heading) Of Tragorigan or Goates Origan.] 1597 J. Gerard ii. 543 Called..in English goates Organie, and goates Marierome. 1688 R. Holme ii. v. 87/2 Goats Organy, hath 2 leaves, and little ones between them and the joint. 1731 N. Bailey (ed. 2) II Tragoriganum, the herb goat's-organy. society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > habitually used by animals > by specific animals 1799 R. Warner 124 We continued along the brook to the end of the rock, and then took a narrow goat's path, winding up the side of the declivity. 1877 30 June The road..becomes a mere goats' path, narrow and rugged, halfworn, half cut, in the rock. 1964 R. L. Taylor xxiv. 306 The road was narrow—hardly more than a goat's path—it made your head reel to walk it. 2014 (Nexis) 8 Dec. 6 It [sc. the cave] can only be reached on foot via a narrow goat's path on top of rock fall that passes upright bedrock walls and is extremely dangerous. the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > other leguminous plants 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens iv. xxxi. 490 This herb is called..in Latine Galega, Ruta Capraria,..in English, Italian Fetche, and Goates Rue [Fr. ceste herbe est appellée..en Latin Galega]. 1640 J. Parkinson iii. xxxii. 418 Goates Rew is most effectuall against the bitings or stings of any venemous creature. 1746 R. James II. 163 Take of the recently extracted juices of succory, lettuce, goat's-rue, and fumitory, each two ounces. 1793 3 175 Galega, virginiana. Goats-rue. 1814 F. Pursh II. 701 Goat's Rue. Tephrosia. 1897 J. C. Willis II. 170 Galega officinalis L., is sometimes cultivated as a fodder-plant (goat's rue). 1936 10 Oct. 2/3 At 3s. 6d. per doz., postage 6d...Galega, commonly known as Goat's Rue, a very striking plant. 1970 40 306/2 The herb and shrub strata were open and discontinuous, consisting mainly of scattered clumps of a low blueberry (Vaccinum sp.) and goat's rue (Tephrosia virginiana). 2001 Feb. 34/3 Goat's Rue. With its distinctive, pinnate leaves, Galega orientalis has tall stems that produce a long-lasting run of purple-blue clusters of pea flowers. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids > early purple orchids 1597 J. Gerard i. 159 There be three sorts or kinds of Goates stones. 1640 J. Parkinson xv. ii. 1348 (caption) Tragorchis vulgaris. The ordinary Goates stones. 1766 T. H. Croker et al. III Satyrium, Goat's-stones, a genus of plants, the flower of which consists of five ovato-oblong petals. 1819 J. Dugdale III. 101/2 Lizard Flower, or Goat's Stones. 1982 Dec. 159 Shepherds called them ‘Goat's Stones’ because of the testiculate bulbs. the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > other thorn-trees 1597 J. Gerard iii. 1148 Tragacantha..in English for want of a better name, Goates Thorne. 1611 R. Cotgrave Barbe regnard, Goats-thorne; the shrub whose root yeeldeth Gumme dragogant. 1722 J. Miller 439 The true Goat's Thorn has a long, thick, crooked, woody Root, taking fast Hold in the Ground by its many Fibres. 1798 8 96 Take one part of the gummy juice that issues..from the shrub called the Goat's Thorn. 1836 J. C. Loudon (rev. ed.) 638 Astragalus Tragacantha, gt. Goat's Thorn. Astragalus Poterium, sm. Goat's Thorn. 1948 (ed. 9) lxxii. 754/1 Tragacanth... Goat's Thorn... Tragacanth is the dried gummy exudation from Astragalus gummifer..or other Asiatic species of Astragalus. 1999 J. Blondel & J. Aronson iv. 95 The subalpine life zone is occupied by treeless grasslands dotted with many spiny dwarf legume shrubs with evocative names like ‘goats thorn’ or ‘hedgehog’. the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > bistort and allies 1597 J. Gerard i. 83 Buckwheat is called of the high Almaines Heydenkorn: of the base Almaines, Buckenweidt; that is to say, Hirci Triticum, or Goates wheate. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault v. xvii. 688 The goates wheate [Fr. le Tragos cerealis] is not very much unlike unto the graine called furmentie. 1797 W. Turton 22 Ægipyrus... Goat's wheat; a sort of buck wheat, so called because it is long-bearded like the goat. 1830 J. C. Loudon 159 Tragopyrum..Goat's Wheat. 1905 S. Turner 403 Lance-leaved Goat's-wheat. 2015 P. Clement & C. Rose 572/2 Main breeding habitat..may include sage Artemisia,..goat's wheat Atraphaxis spinosa, prickly-thrift Acantholimon and larger bushes or small trees. the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > whey a1400 tr. Lanfranc (Ashm.) (1894) 89 (MED) Þese ben liȝt mundificatiuis: sugre, hony..gotis whay [L. serum caprinum]. 1583 P. Barrough iii. xxv. 115 Commix those thinges which doe purge gently, as be goates wheye, tamarindes, & casia fistularis. 1727 E. Strother tr. P. Hermann I. ii. 141 If it be infus'd in Goat's Whey, or Fumitory Water, and given, it corrects Disorders of the Spleen. 1814 W. Scott III. xix. 295 He was to be joined by Lady Emily, to whom easy travelling and goat's whey were recommended. View more context for this quotation 1904 G. F. Thompson in A. Fossum 26 Goat's whey is highly recommended by foreign authorities for its medicinal and nourishing properties. 2013 (Nexis) Nov. 8 Our gammon will be from a breed of pig called Oxford Sandy & Black, which are fed on goats' whey. 1597 J. Gerard iii. 1204 The Sallowe tree or Goates Willow, groweth to a tree of a mean bignes. 1658 E. Phillips Sallow, (latin Salix) the Goats willow-tree. 1761 J. Mordant I. 305 Sallow. In some places it is called Goats-willow. 1846 G. B. Emerson ii. 239 The leaves of the goat's willow, Salix caprea are considered in France..the best food for cows, goats and horses. 1894 T. Hardy 54 The shadows of the great goat's-willow swayed and interchanged upon the walls like a spectral army manœuvring. 1995 E. A. Gaer in M. M. Balzer & M. E. S. Armonk 147 The umbilical cord was..sprinkled with powder scraped from the inner bark of goat's willow. the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > that which is non-existent > a thing that does not exist the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > hair or wool 1550 J. Bankes tr. J. Rivius sig. h.v Our strife is not bout the Goates woole [L. Non de lana caprina..agitur] (as it is said in the common prouerbe). 1602 J. Darrell 4 Phisialogus is altogither mute: he spent all his goates wooll in makinge his other web, and hath not left himself one locke, to worke vp this peece with. 1638 L. Roberts lii. sig. M3v Natolia which in generall for merchandise doth yeeld these commodities, galles, carpets, oyles,..goats wooll[etc.]. 1654 R. Vilvain tr. v. xiii. f. 95v Four terms are held in England every wher: Wher brabbles oftimes for Goats wool appeer. 1704 No. 3983/4 The Cargo of the Ship Hamstead Galley..consisting of..Goats-wooll, Cotton-yarn, Cotton-wooll, &c. will be exposed to..Sale. 1852 Nov. 581/2 Of course, no human being who knows anything of the profession..will pay the slightest attention to these recommendations, or consider them as anything more than mere goat's wool. 1908 10 296 It is the living survivor of the historic feather cloaks..and the old-time blankets of the North in goat's wool. 2005 R. Dorje 234 Virgin goat's wool makes what's known in the West as cashmere. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > as lemmasGOAT 1965 11 Dec. 14 They're beginning to take Cassius Clay or Muhammad Ali seriously. He has said all along that he's the greatest of all time.] 1992 (single sheet) 30 June The State Corporation Commission has found the accompanying articles submitted on behalf of G.O.A.T., Inc. to comply with requirements of the law. 1996 20 Oct. 73/5 Ali's corporate entity, GOAT (Greatest Of All Time), generates income of $1 million a year. 2002 (Nexis) 15 Oct. 39 He [sc. L. L. Cool J] has been in the habit of rapping about himself as the ‘GOAT’ (Greatest of All Time). 2009 (Nexis) 8 June After yesterday, there can be no buts about his [sc. Roger Federer's] status as tennis' GOAT (Greatest Of All Time). 2014 B. Ryan xxvii. 275 If championships alone are the measuring stick, then Michael [Jordan] is probably going to remain the popular choice as the GOAT. <  n.adj.eOEas lemmas |
