See ANAS, ORNITHOLOGY Index. The goose was held in great esteem amongst the Romans, for having saved the Capitol from the invasion of the Gauls by cackling and clapping its wings. Geese were kept in the temple of Juno; and the censors, when they entered upon their office, provided meat for them. There was also an annual feast at home, at which they carried a silver image of a goose in state; and hanged a dog, to punish that animal because he did not bark at the arrival of the Gauls.

GOOSE-Ander. See MERCUS, ORNITHOLOGY Index.

GOOSE-Berry. See RIBES, BOTANY Index.

GOOSE-Neck, in a ship, a piece of iron fixed on the one end of the tiller, to which the laniard of the whip-staff or the wheel-rope comes, for steering the ship.

GOOSE-Wing, in the sea language. When a ship fails before, or with a quarter-wind on a fresh gale, to make the more haste, they launch out a boom and sail on the lee-side; and a sail so fitted is called a goose-wing.