a circle of the Prussian government of Leignitz, in Silesia, extending over 220 square miles, and including two cities and eighty villages, with 38,900 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, which stands on an elevation of 830 feet, at the foot of which is the river Katsbach. Near to it are mines of iron and manganese, and gold was formerly found. It is now a flourishing manufacturing place, with 6000 inhabitants, who produce cloths and flannels.

Golden, something which has a relation to gold, or consists of gold.

Golden Calf was a figure of a calf, which the Israelites cast in gold, or some preparation of that metal, and set up in the wilderness to worship during Moses' absence in the mount; and which that legislator at his return burned, ground to powder, and mixed with the water the people were to drink.