**GOINGS,** in sea-language, are clamps of iron bolted on the stern-post of a ship, whereon to hang the rudder and keep it steady; for which purpose there is a hole in each of them, to receive a correspondent spindle bolted on the back of the rudder, which turns thereby as upon hinges.

**GOOSE.** 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 Rome, 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 **MERGUS, 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 sails 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.

**GORCUM,** a town in South Holland, which carries on a considerable trade in cheese and butter. It is situated on the rivers Ligne and Maese, in E. Long. 4° 55'. N. Lat. 51° 49'.

**GORDIANUS I.** a Roman general, was for his valour and virtues chosen emperor by the army in the reign of Maximinus, A.D. 237; but his son, whom he had associated with himself in the throne, being slain by Capellian, the governor of Mauritania for Maximinus, Gordianus killed himself the same year. See **ROME.**

**GORDIANUS III.** grandson of the former, a renowned warrior, and styled *The guardian of the Roman commonwealth.* He was treacherously assassinated by Philippus, an Arabian, one of his generals; who, to the eternal disgrace of the Romans of that era, succeeded him in the empire, A.D. 244. See **ROME.**

**GORDIAN-KNOT,**