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▪ I. goat|gəʊt|
Pl. goats. Forms: α. 1–3 gát, 4–5 gayte, (5 gatt), 5–6 gaytt, 6 gate, 6– north. gait; pl. 3 gaten, 4 gaytes, 6 gates, Sc. gaitis. β. pl. 1– 3 gǽt, 1–4 gét, 3 geat, 4 geete, geyte, north. gaite, gayte, 4–5 geet, gete, 5 gheet, north. gate, 6 (gheate), north. gait. γ. 4 geet, geit, geyt, (gehet, 5 get(t, 6 geat); pl. 4 geetis. δ. 3–5 got, 4 goote, goet, 4–5 goot, (5 gothe), 4–6 gote, 6–7 goate, gott(e, 6– goat; pl. 3 gotes, 4 gootes, 6–7 goates, 7– goats.
[Com. Teut.: OE. gát fem. = MDu. geit, geet(e, Du. geit (obs. geite, geyte), OHG. geiȥ, keiȥ (MHG. geiȥ, mod.G. geisz, ON. geit (Sw. get, Da. ged), Goth. gait-s:—OTeut. *gait- cogn. w. L. hædus kid:—OAr. *ghaid-.
In OE. the vowel of the nom. sing. remained in the gen. gáte, gen. pl. gáta, dat. pl. gátum, but was mutated in the dat. sing. and nom. pl. gǽt. In ME. the northern dialects show the normal gāt, gait, the southern goot, goat. The pl. gǽt is represented in southern and midland dialects by gēt, geet, geat; the northern dialects show an unmutated form gait (? influenced by ON. geitr). A sing. geet in 14th c. is prob. the result of assimilation to the plural.]
OE. gát being fem. denoted only the female goat; the male was called bucca buck n.1, also gátbucca goat-buck. The extended sense seems to occur in early ME., and is frequent in the 14th c. The distinctive terms he-goat and she-goat appear about the end of that century, and are now the recognized terms for the two sexes (colloquially also billy-goat and nanny-goat). The young animal is called a kid.
1. a. A ruminant quadruped of the genus Capra.
The goat is indigenous to the Eastern Hemisphere, but by domestication naturalized in all parts of the world. It is especially noted for its hardy, lively and wanton nature, and its strong odour. Most of the species have hollow horns, curving backwards, and the male is usually bearded.
Occas. used with allusion to the mention of ‘sheep’ and ‘goats’ in Matt. xxv. 32, 33, as symbolical respectively of the righteous and the wicked at the Day of Judgement.
αa700Epinal Gloss. 1028 Titule [? read caulæ] gata loc. a1000Riddles xxv. 2 (Gr.) Ic..blæte swa gat. c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 352 Ȝenim þæt wæter þe innan gæt byþ. c1200Ormin 1200 For gat iss..Gal deor & stinnkeþþ fule. c1205Lay 21310 Þeh..þer weoren in ane loken fif hundred gaten. Ibid. 21315 Ich am wulf & he is gat. a1225Ancr. R. 100 Wend ut & go efter gate herden. [Ibid., Foluwe heorden of geat.] a1340Hampole Psalter xlix. 14 [l. 13] Whether i sall ete fleysse of bulles, or i sall drynke blode of gaytes. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) vii. 24 It had..fra þeine vpward þe schappe of a gayte. a1550Christis Kirke Gr. ii, Thay squelit lyke ony gaitis. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. May 177 The Gate her dame..Yode forth abroad [gloss. the Gote: Northernely spoken, to turne O into A]. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 155 Swyne, hens, geese, gaites. 1737Ramsay Scot. Prov. (1797) 94 Ye come to the gait's house to thigg woo. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Gait, a goat.
βa900Cynewulf Christ 1230 in Exeter Bk., Hy..reotað and beofiað fore frean forhte swa fule swa gæt. c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 214 Ȝif þu ᵹesihst maneᵹa get, ydel ᵹetacnað. c1200Ormin 1206 Forrþi sinndenn alle þa..Effnedd wiþþ gæt & nemmnedd gæt. c1205Lay. 25682 He makeþ him to mete..ruðeren hors & þa scep, gæt [c 1275 geat] and þa swin eke. a1225Ancr. R. 100 Hwat beoð heorden of geat? 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 6134 Hys angels..Sal first departe þe gude fra þe ille, Als þe hird þe shepe dus fra þe gayte. c1350Eng. Gilds (1870) 354 Alle marchauntes of Get, Shep, oþer swyn. 1382Wyclif Gen. xxxii. 14 She geyte two hundrid, hee geyte twenty [1388 geet..buckis of geet]. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 311 In þat londe beeþ many scheep and geet and fewe roos and hertes. c1440Gesta Rom. liv. 373 (Add. MS.) Lyouns be pride, Foxes be fraude..Gete be stynke of lechery. c1480Henryson Mor. Fab. 27 Under ane tree hee saw an trip of Gate. 1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 34 After that I wente to the gheet in to the wode, there herde I the kyddes blete. 1513Douglas æneis iii. iv. 24 Flockis and hirdis of oxin..And trippis eik of gait. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 7 Verie conuenient to feid horse or nout, or flockis of scheip or gait.
⁋In the following quots. the plural forms geat(s and goats are distinguished as fem. and masc. respectively.
1567Thomas Ital. Dict., Zebe, gheate, the femalles of the ghoates. 1576Turberv. Venerie 147 The female (which are called Geats and the buckes Goates).
γ1382Wyclif Gen. xv. 9 Take..to thee a kow of thre ȝeer, and a she gehet [1388 a geet] of thre ȝeer. ― Lev. iv. 24 An hee geit of the geetis. 14..Songs & Carols 15th C. (Percy Soc.) 65 An adamant stone it is not frange⁓byll Wyth no thyng but with mylke of a gett.
δa1225Ancr. R. 100 As of a ticchen..kumeð a stinkinde got oðer a bucke [etc.]. c1275Lay. 21310 Þeh þar were on flockes two hundred gotes. 1382Wyclif Lev. xvi. 5 He shal take..two gootes. Ibid. 8 The goot that shal be sent out. c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 758/27 Hec capra, a gothe. 1484Caxton Fables of æsop ii. vi, Of a wulf whiche sawe a lambe among a grete herd of gootes. 1535Coverdale Lev. xvii. 2 What so euer he be..yt kylleth an oxe, or lambe, or goate in the hoost [etc.]. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. v. i. 89 The diuell..dooth most properlie and commonlie transforme himselfe into a gote. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. iv. 37, I scarse euer look'd on blood, But that of Coward Hares, hot Goats, and Venison. 1628Sir W. Mure Spirituall Hymne 326 The damned goates hee doth despise; Poynts out his lambes, whose sinfull dyes hee purgde with bloody streame. 1725Pope Odyss. xiv. 59 He..A shaggy goat's soft hyde beneath him spread. 1817Coleridge Sibyll. Leaves (1862) 184 Ye wild goats sporting round the eagle's nest! 1833Tennyson Œnone 50 Leading a jet-black goat white-horned, white-hooved.
Phrase.1611Cotgr., Paillard comme vn Moine,..as lecherous as a Goat (say we).
b. Used Zool. in pl. as a rendering of mod.L. Caprinæ, the name of the sub-family to which the genus Capra belongs. Also, with distinctive prefix, applied to certain antelopes, as † blue goat = blauwbok; Rocky Mountain goat, Haplocerus montanus; yellow goat = dzeren.
1731Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope II. 114 The Blew goats are shaped like the tame, but are as large as an European hart. 1884–5Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) V. 343 The Rocky Mountain goat (Haplocerus americanus).
2. transf.
a. The zodiacal sign Capricorn.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 207 Capricornus þe goot. 1594Blundevil Exerc. iii. i. xxiv. (1636) 330 The tenth Signe called Capricornus, that is to say, the Goat. a1631Donne Progr. Soul i. 336 The Sun hath twenty tymes both Crabb and Goate Parchèd, since first launch'd forth this livinge boat. 1868Lockyer Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 6) 330 To the west of this constellation we again find the Waterbearer and the Goat.
†b. The star Capella (Alpha Aurigæ). Obs.
1551Recorde Cast. Knowl. (1556) 264 Then foloweth Erichthonius, with the Goate and the 2 Kyddes. 1674Moxon Tutor Astron. ii. (ed. 3) 63, I take Capella, alias Hircus, the Goat on Auriga's shoulder.
†c. [transl. of Gr. αἴξ.] A fiery meteor. Obs.
1656Stanley Hist. Philos. vi. 63 Hence come those [fiery exhalations] they call firebrands, goates, falling-starres [etc.].
d. Short for goatskin.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 290/2 Men's goat driving gloves. 1927J. S. Hewitt-Bates Bookbinding for Schools 13 Goat or Morocco. Ibid. 14 Persians..may be made either from goat or sheep. 1927Longman's Class. Cat. Educ. Works 12 Hand grained goat, gilt edges.
3. fig.
a. A licentious man.
1675Traherne Chr. Ethics vii. 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. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Goat, a Lecher, or very Lascivious Person. 1863Holland Lett. Joneses iii. 51, I think this devotion of your life to music has had the tendency..to make you intellectually an ass and morally a goat.
b. to play the (giddy) goat: to frolic foolishly; to play the fool; to behave in an irresponsible manner. Also, to act the goat. colloq.
1879H. Hartigan Stray Leaves from Mil. Man's Note Bk. i, Don't be actin' the goat. 1887Kipling From Sea to Sea (1900) I. xiv. 162 You'll find some o' the youngsters play the goat a good deal when they come out o' stable. 1888― Under Deodars (1890) 91 Generally, as he explained, ‘playing the giddy garden goat all round’. 1927Galsworthy White Monkey i. v, It's playing the goat for no earthly reason. 1929W. P. Ridge Affect. Regards 61 Haven't I got enough trouble without you acting the goat in this fashion?
c. to get (a person's) goat: to make (him) angry; to annoy or irritate. slang (orig. U.S.).
1910J. London Let. 2 Aug. (1966) 316 Honestly, I believe I've got Samuels' goat! He's afraid to come back. 1912C. Mathewson Pitching in a Pinch ii. 28 Lobert..stopped at third with a mocking smile on his face which would have gotten the late Job's goat. 1914Sat. Even. Post 4 Apr. 10/3 It got my goat—that and the cold and that light in all the dark. 1919H. Jenkins John Dene of Toronto (1920) iv. 70 There are some things in this country that get my goat. 1922Weekly Westm. Gaz. 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. 1924Galsworthy White Monkey ii. i, That had got the chairman's goat!—Got his goat? What expressions they used nowadays! 1929J. B. Priestley Good Companions iii. i. 474 Now this is what gets my goat, and you can't blame me. 1960B. Keaton Wonderf. World of Slapstick (1967) i. 22 What got my goat was that when I finally did get knocked off..it was due to an accident outside the theatre.
d. A fool; a dupe. colloq.
1916C. J. Dennis Songs of Sentimental Bloke 39 The drarmer's writ be Shakespeare, years ago, About a barmy goat called Romeo. 1947K. Tennant Lost Haven i. 20 You old goat! Shut up and get out before I slam you out. Ibid. xxi. 365 ‘Don't be a goat.’ Silly young fools, all three of them. 1949Partridge Dict. Underworld 296/1 Goat,..a dupe; swindler's victim. 1971Inside Kenya Today Mar. 37/2 ‘I must discipline these idiots,’ Omolo said to himself... ‘I must beat them today, goats!’
4. attrib. and Comb.
a. General combs., as goat-beard, goat-bell, goat-carriage, goat-cheese, goat-feet (also attrib. or adj.), goat-fell, goat-fold, goat-horn, goat-house, goat-kid, goat-kind, goat land, goat-milk (also attrib.), goat-pen, goat-shed, goat-stand, goat-thigh: goat-like adj. and adv.; goat-bearded, goat-eyed, goat-fed, goat-footed, goat-headed, goat-horned, goat-nursed ppl. adjs.
14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 703/14 Hoc stirillum, a *gaytt berde.
1604Middleton Father Hubburd's T. Wks. (Bullen) VIII. 105 A *goat-bearded usurer. 1876Longfellow Dutch Picture 29 Old sea-faring men come in, goat-bearded gray, and with double chin.
1884Macm. Mag. Oct. 434/1 Turkish *goat-bells and Albanian goat-bells are quite different.
1897Blackw. Mag. Dec. 779/2 He used to come in his *goat-carriage to see me.
1893E. H. Barker Wand. South. Waters 311 She gave me some excellent *goat-cheese.
1656W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. §290 Hee..that looketh with his eyes drawn together, *goat-eyed. 1824Swan tr. Gesta Rom. lxxvi. I. 267 The goat-eyed man of physic acquiesced.
c1616Chapman Odyss. ix. 384 We Cyclops care not for your *Goat-fed Ioue.
1590Marlowe Edw. II, i. i. 60 My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, Shall with their *goat-feet dance the antic hay. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 8 Nymphs of the forrests..shewing your beauty's treasure To goat-feet sylvans.
1436Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 160 Commodytes..commynge out of Spayne..Iren, wolle, wadmole, *gotefel, kydefel also.
1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Sculler Wks. iii. 17/2 He..to Hels *Goat⁓fold aye doth millions bring, Of soules.
1776R. Chandler Trav. Greece (1825) II. 74 The *goat-footed god quitted his habitation on the mountain.
1896A. Lillie Worship Satan Mod. France Pref. 17 Where was the logic of the pact in blood with a *goat-headed monstrosity?
1549Compl. Scotl. vi. 65 Ane pipe maid of ane *gait horne.
1863Lyell Antiq. Man 26 The small race of *goat-horned sheep still lingers in some Alpine valleys of the Upper Rhine.
c1550Cheke Matt. xxvi. 71 As he was going forth into y⊇ *goathous. 1675Hobbes Odyss. (1677) 207 [To] lead my goats afield..& my goat-houses sweep. 1752in Scots Mag. (1753) Oct. 510/2 The goat-house in the moor.
153.Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1860) 76, xxiij ould gaytt 38/4. iiij *gaytt keedes 4/.
1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) III. 35 Of Animals of the Sheep and *Goat Kind.
1621Fletcher Pilgrim iv. iii, He is a mountaineere, a man of *Goteland.
1583Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 89 A meigre leane rake with a long berd *goatlyke. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits v. (1596) 68 It behoueth that in humane learning there be some Goat-like wits. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 249 The forehead round, or Goat-like wrinkled. 1862M. Goodman Exper. Sister of Mercy 87 A goat-like descent from rock to rock. 1897Hughes Mediterr. Fever iv. 156 A characteristic goat-like odour.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) vii. 27 Putte þerto *gayte mylke. 1726Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 266 In June most of the ministers of Glasgow were out of town at the goat-milk. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 8 Aug., Dr. Gregory..advises the Highland air, and the use of goat-milk whey.
1725Pope Odyss. ix. 330 We Cyclops are, a race above Those air-bred people, and their *goat-nursed Jove.
1601Holland Pliny II. 322 *Goat-pens and stals where they [goats] be kept.
1851Zoologist IX. 2978 Our guide at length conducted us to a *goat-shed.
1775R. Chandler Trav. Asia M. (1825) I. 340, I discovered a *goat-stand in a dale.
1879Browning Pheidippides 68 Under the human trunk the *goat-thighs grand I saw.
b. Special combs., as goat and bee, used attrib. to designate a type of Chelsea porcelain; also, applied to silverware bearing the same pattern; goat-antelope, an antelope of the genus Nemorhædus; † goat-beetle = goat-chafer; goat-chafer, a capricorn beetle (cf. quots.); † goat-doe, a female goat; goat-drunk a., lascivious from drink; goat-fig = L. caprifīcus see quot.); goat-fish, a name given to several species of fish, as the Balistes capriscus and Phycis furcatus of Europe, and the Upeneus maculatus of America; goat-foot [after Gr. αἰγιπόδης, αἰγίπους], a faun or satyr; the god Pan (cf. also goat-feet); also attrib.; goat-god, the god Pan; goat hair, the hair or skin of the goat; † goat-hart (see quot.); goat-leap = goat's leap; † goat-marjoram (see quot. and cf. goat's-marjoram); † goat-milker = goat-sucker; goat-moth (see quot. 1859); goat-owl = goat-sucker; goat-path, a narrow mountain track, such as is made by goats; † goat-peach (see quot.); goat-pepper (see quot.); goat-root, the plant Ononis Natrix; goat-rue = goat's rue (see 4 c); † goat-sea, the ægean Sea; goat-singing, -song, renderings of Gr. τραγῳδία tragedy; † goat-speech = eclogue (q.v.); goat-star = goat 2 b; goat-stones = goat's-stones; goat-track = goat-path; goat-weed, a name for the W. Indian plants Capraria biflora and Stemodia durantifolia; ? also for ægopodium Podagraria (Goutweed); goat-willow, Salix caprea; † goat-wool = goat's-wool (a). See also goat-buck, -herd, -skin, -sucker.
1931E. Wenham Domestic Silver v. 98 Various curious shapes were adapted to these small jugs, one being the so-called ‘*goat and bee’. This is supposed to have been designed by Nicholas Sprimont, a silversmith, and..examples in silver are extremely rare. 1957Mankowicz & Haggar Encycl. Eng. Pott. & Porc. 97/1 ‘Goat and Bee’ jug, a jug decorated with goats and a bee, incised in the base with the word Chelsea, a triangle, and a date, generally 1745.
1847Craig, *Goat or goral antelopes.
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii. ⁋28 Since..we find so noble a scent in the tulip-fly and *goat-beetle. Note, The long and tender green capricornus, rarely found.
1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1006 Capricornus; the Germans call it Holtzback; the English, *Goat-chafer. 1792J. Belknap Hist. New Hampsh. III. 181 Goat Chaffer, Cerambyx coriarius. 1837M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 207 The silk-cotton tree worm..is..the caterpillar of a large capricorn beetle, or goat-chafer.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 570/22 Capra, a *gootdoo [ibid. 30 a gotdo].
1592Nashe Pierce Penilesse 24 The seuenth is *Goate drunke, when in his drunkennes he hath no minde but on Lecherie. 1601? Marston Pasquil & Kath. iii. 7 Mounsieur's Goat drunke, and he shrugs, and skrubs, and hee's it for a wench. a1640Day Peregr. Schol. (1881) 52 In theise two..the goates blood is predominante; and such we call Goate-Drunk.
1835Booth Analyt. Dict. 106 The common Figtree..when in its wild state is called Caprificus or *Goat-fig.
a1639T. Carew Cæl. Brit. Wks. (1824) 160 The centaure, the horn'd *goatfish capricorne. 1864Couch Brit. Fishes III. 125 Goatfish. The Greater Fork⁓beard, Phycis furcatus. 1885A. Brassey The Trades 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.
1878Wilde Ravenna v. 10 Some *goat⁓foot Pan. 1898G. Meredith Odes Fr. Hist. 6 To veil an evil leer, And bid a goatfoot trip it like a fay. 1906Daily Chron. 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. 1912R. Brooke Poems (1918) 54 To glimpse a Naiad's reedy head, Or hear the Goat-foot piping low. 1925E. Sitwell Troy Park 9 The goat-foot satyr waves.
1879Browning Pheidippides 76 Go, say to Athens, ‘The *Goat-God saith: When Persia..is cast in the sea, Then praise Pan’. 1896F. B. Jevons Introd. Hist. Relig. xxiii. 351 The Satiric chorus.. wore goat skins..to mark their intimate relation with the goat-god.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 102/3 Infants' white *goat hair brushes, fine and soft. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder (Suppl.) 29 Mar. 4/1 A multilayer goat-hair fleece. 1967J. Rathbone Diamonds Bid iii. 27, I have plenty of kilims and goat-hair rugs.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), *Goat-hart, or Stone-buck, a wild Beast.
1726Dict. Rust. (ed. 3) s.v. Capriole, The *Goat-leap, when a horse at the full height of his Leap, yerks or strikes out his hind legs.
1755Johnson, *Goat marjoram, the same with Goatsbeard. [Hence in later Dicts.]
1611Cotgr., Caprimulge, a *Goat-milker. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Goat-milker or Goat-sucker, a kind of Owl.
1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) III. 221 The *goat moth. 1859Thompson Gardener's Assist. 533 The caterpillars of the goat-moth (Cossus ligniperda).
1768Pennant Zool. II. 246 *Goat Owl.
1897Daily News 13 Apr. 5/7 Here..the only roads are *goat-paths in the mountains.
1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. Gloss., *Goat-Peaches are Peaches that are very hairy.
1836Penny Cycl. VI. 274/1 A much hotter species is the Capsicum fruticosum or *goat-pepper, a native of the East Indies.
1840Paxton Bot. Dict., *Goat-root, see Ononis Natrix.
1756P. Browne Jamaica 289 Galega..The shrubby *Goat-rue.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. ix. (1593) 223 Miletas swiftly past The *gote-sea.
1789T. Twining Aristotle on Poetry (1812) I. 111 note 7 Tragedy, i.e., according to the most usual derivation of the word, the *goat-singing.
1822Shelley Hellas Pref., The only *goat-song which I have yet attempted.
1483Cath. Angl. 148/2 A *Gayte speche egloga.
1894Gladstone Horace's Odes iii. vii. 6 Him wild *Goat-stars vexed.
1657W. Coles Adam in Eden cclxxviii, It is called..in English Satyrion, Orchis, Doggestones, *Goatestones, Foolestones [etc.].
1889C. Edwardes Sardinia 153 We at length..hit upon the *goat-track.
1756P. Browne Jamaica 268 *Goat weed. This plant..grows about most houses in the lower Savannas. 1864Grisebach Flora W. Ind. 784 Goat-weed, Capraria biflora and Stemodia durantifolia.
1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. V. 99 Great Round-leaved Sallow, or *Goat-Willow. 1894Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. June 240 For coppice, probably Salix caprea, the Goat Willow or English Palm, would be best.
1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 48 Sum glasteris, and thai gang at all for *gayt woll.
c. Comb. with gen. goat's, as goat's horn, goat-milk, etc.; also goat's-bane (see quot.); † goat's-cullions = goat's-stones; goat's-foot, † (a) (see quot. 1786; = F. pied de chèvre); also attrib.; (b) a name for the South African plant Oxalis caprina; goat's hair (see quot.); † goat's-jump = goat's-leap; goat's-leaf (see quots.); † goat's-leap = capriole; † goat's-marjoram, ? wild marjoram (Origanum vulgare); † goat's-orchis = goat's stones; † goat's-organy = goat's-marjoram; goat's-rue, Galega officinalis; † goat's-stones, the name of several orchids, esp. Orchis mascula or hircina; goat's-thorn, a name for Astragalus Tragacanthus and other species; goat's-wheat, a rendering of mod.L. Tragopyrum, a Siberian genus of plants allied to the buckwheat; goat's-wool, (a) something non-existent (= L. lana caprina); (b) the fine wool mingled with the hair of some species of goats. See also goat's-beard.
1840Paxton Bot. Dict., *Goat's-bane, see Aconitum tragoctonum.
1578Lyte Dodoens ii. lvi. 222 The third kinde [of Orchis]..is called..in English Hares Balloxe and *Goates Cullions.
1672W. T. Mil. & Mar. Disc. iii. Compl. Gunner i. xxviii. 47 An Iron *Goats-foot with a Crow. 1786Grose Treat. Anc. Armour 59 The smaller cross bows were bent with the hand by means of a small steel lever, called the goat's foot, from its being forked on the side that rested on the cross bow and the cord. 1829Loudon Encycl. Plants 384 Oxalis caprina, Goat's-foot. 1869Boutell Arms & Arm. viii. 141 The hind's foot (called also the goat's foot) cross-bow.
1895Edin. Rev. Apr. 531 It is the cloud known to seamen..as ‘*goats' hair’ or ‘mares' tails’.
1589Pasquil's Counter-C. 3 O how my Palfrey fetcht me uppe the Curuetto, and daunced the *Goats jumpe.
1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 139 The foliage of our Woodbine is very agreeable to goats, hence our plant is sometimes called *Goat's-leaf. 1861Mrs. Lankester Wild Flowers 71 The Perfoliate Honeysuckle, or Goat's-leaf.
1598Florio, Capriola, a capriole, a sault or *goates leape that cunning riders teach their horses. 1623Cockeram, Capriole, the leaping of a horse aboue ground, called by horsemen the goats leape.
1530Palsgr. 226/2 *Gottesmylke, laict de chieure. 1848Buckley Iliad 207 The woman grated over it a goat's-milk cheese.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccix. §2. 543 Goates Organie is called..in English *goates Organie, and *goates Marierome.
1578Lyte Dodoens ii. lvi, 222 Rootes of Standergrasses (but especially of Hares Balloxe, or *Goates Orchis) eaten..doth, [etc.].
Ibid. iv. xxxi. 490 Galega..is called in English Italian Fetche and *Goates Rue. 1897Willis Flower. Pl. II. 170 Galega officinalis L., is sometimes cultivated as a fodder-plant (goat's rue).
1597Gerarde Herbal i. c. §1. 159 There be three sorts or kinds of *Goates stones.
Ibid. iii. xxiii. 1148 Tragacantha..in English for want of a better name, *Goates Thorne. 1611Cotgr., Barbe regnard, Goats-thorne; the shrub whose root yeeldeth Gumme dragogant. 1829Loudon Encycl. Plants 638 Astragalus Tragacantha, gt. Goat's Thorn. Astragalus Poterium, sm. Goat's Thorn.
1840Paxton Bot. Dict., *Goat's-wheat, see Tragopyrum.
1588J. Udall Demonstr. Discipl. (Arb.) 11 The controuersie is not about *goats woolle (as the prouerbe saeth) neither light and trifling maters. 1704Lond. Gaz. No. 3983/4 The Cargo of the Ship Hamstead Galley..consisting of..Goats-wooll, Cotton-yarn, Cotton-wooll, &c. will be exposed to..Sale. 1812J. Smyth Pract. Customs (1821) 314 Turkey Goat's Wool.
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