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179 Gone poor. Decayed, tainted, turned sour. Gone to lie. Said of corn, or grass beaten down by- rough weather. Gone round land. Dead. Gone dead. Dead. Good carne« G-ood rocks for fishing near. Tonkin, Goodness. The richness, or fatness in food. GoodspOOn. A young brat. A ^^ne'er do well." J.W. LostwithieL Goody. To prosper, to thrive. "Its sure to goody." Goog. A cliff cavern. n.e.c. Gook. A bonnet shade like the peak of a boy's cap, generally blue. Also, a bend in the neck, from an awkward habit of leaning the head down, and thrust- ing the face forwards. " He's got such a gook." Goonhillies. A celebrated breed of small horses formerly bred on the Goonhilly downs in Cornwall. Norden, in his "Topographical and Historical des- cription of Cornwall,'^ and whose survey, says the Editor of the edition of 1728, was probably taken in 1584, states that, "There is a kinde of naggs bredd upon a mountanous and spatious peece of grounde, called Goon-hillye, lyinge betweene the sea coaste and Helston ; which are the hardeste naggs and bestes of travaile for their bones within this kingdome, resem- bling in body for quantitie, and in goodnes of mettle, the Galloway naggs." Goose-chick. A gosling. A symbol of exhaustion. " As weak as a goose-chick."