Go

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A glass of spirits.

II. Go ·noun Act; working; operation.

III. Go ·p.p. Gone.

IV. Go ·noun Noisy merriment; as, a high go.

V. Go ·noun The fashion or mode; as, quite the go.

VI. Go ·vt To bet or wager; as, I'll go you a shilling.

VII. Go ·noun A circumstance or occurrence; an Incident.

VIII. Go ·vi To have recourse; to Resort; as, to go to law.

IX. Go ·vi To be with young; to be pregnant; to Gestate.

X. Go ·vi To apply one's self; to set one's self; to Undertake.

XI. Go ·noun Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance; push; as, there is no go in him.

XII. Go ·vt To take, as a share in an enterprise; to undertake or become responsible for; to bear a part in.

XIII. Go ·vi To move upon the feet, or step by step; to Walk; also, to walk step by step, or leisurely.

XIV. Go ·vi To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an act of the memory or imagination;

— generally with over or through.

XV. Go ·add. ·noun Something that goes or is successful; a success; as, he made a go of it; also, an Agreement.

XVI. Go ·noun That condition in the course of the game when a player can not lay down a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.

XVII. Go ·vi To be passed on fron one to another; to Pass; to Circulate; hence, with for, to have currency; to be taken, accepted, or regarded.

XVIII. Go ·vi To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to Perish; to Decline; to Decease; to Die.

XIX. Go ·vi To Reach; to Extend; to Lead; as, a line goes across the street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New York.

XX. Go ·vi To proceed or happen in a given manner; to Fare; to move on or be carried on; to have course; to come to an issue or result; to Succeed; to turn out.

XXI. Go ·vi To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away; to Leave; to Depart;

— in opposition to stay and come.

XXII. Go ·vi To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or product; to Tend; to Conduce; to be an ingredient; to Avail; to Apply; to Contribute;

— often with the infinitive; as, this goes to show.

XXIII. Go ·vi To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be in a state not motionless or at rest; to Proceed; to Advance; to make progress;

— used, in various applications, of the movement of both animate and inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the movements of the mind; also figuratively applied.

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