Goat
[gəʊt] or [ɡoʊt]
Definition
(noun.) any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns.
Checker: Sheena--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.
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Definition
n. the well-known quadruped allied to the sheep.—ns. Goat′chāfer the dor or dung-beetle; Goatēē′ a beard left on the chin while the rest of the face is shaven; Goat′-herd one who tends goats.—adj. Goat′ish resembling a goat esp. in smell: lustful: wanton.—ns. Goat′ishness; Goat′-moth a large moth common throughout Europe and Asia having a thick heavy body and measuring three inches or more across the wings; Goat's′-beard Goat's′-rue Goat's′-thorn names of plants; Goat′skin the skin of the goat leather made from it; Goat′sucker a kind of swallow erroneously thought to suck goats.
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To dream of goats wandering around a farm, is significant of seasonable weather and a fine yield of crops To see them otherwise, denotes cautious dealings and a steady increase of wealth. If a billy goat butts you, beware that enemies do not get possession of your secrets or business plans. For a woman to dream of riding a billy goat, denotes that she will be held in disrepute because of her coarse and ill-bred conduct. If a woman dreams that she drinks goat's milk, she will marry for money and will not be disappointed.
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The honored founder and oldest inhabitant of Harlem, N.Y. Elsewhere, not in good odor.
Typist: Wolfgang
Examples
- But the band of Sordo are as much better than we are as we are better than goat manure. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- An elderly nursemaid and two children were standing in a corner of the enclosure, looking at a lean goat tethered to the grass. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The fat of the lion, hippopotamus, crocodile, goose, serpent, and wild goat, in equal parts, served as a prescription for baldness. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I will climb it like a goat, Agustín said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It tells how they was stoned and sawn asunder, and wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, and was destitute, afflicted, tormented. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We had drained the goat-skins dry in a little while. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You look healthy as a goat. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Generally they wore a distinctive mantle of rough goat-skin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A goat, with a child on its back, was led by two elderly women waving pine branches. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- You probably forget we had goat's flesh for supper last night. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And I suppose that you'll go to Valencia together and we can eat goat crut in Gredos. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He could see Pablo climbing down into the gorge like a goat. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She could not have appeared more perfectly unconcerned if I had told her of the death of the goat in the enclosure outside. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- We generally use goats' milk; and, 'gad, do you know, I've got to prefer it! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The Neolithic man had domesticated cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Have you goats? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The balance of the population are asleep within doors, or abroad tending goats in the plains and on the hill-sides. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In regard to sheep and goats I can form no decided opinion. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Plenty of it up in the mountain yonder, as the goats are very fond of it. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Even the scattering groups of armed shepherds we met the afternoon before, tending their flocks of long-haired goats, were wanting here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Close to it was a stream, and on its banks a great herd of curious-looking Syrian goats and sheep were gratefully eating gravel. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The lake-dwellers, on the other hand, had, in addition to the dog, which was of a medium-sized breed, oxen, goats, and sheep. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The two of them came scrambling down the rock like goats. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Parchment manufactured from the skins of young calves, kids, lambs, sheep, and goats, was an early rival of papyrus, and was known and used in Europe before papyrus was there introduced. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There is also a process called tawing, which is employed chiefly in the preparation of the skins of sheep, lambs, goats and kids. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The children took the cows and goats out to graze, and brought them in at night before the wolves and bears came prowling. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Just then, there emerged from a near copse two goats and a little kid, by the mother's side; they began to browze the herbage of the hill. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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