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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over or through By going over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this great subject. --South. 8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate. The fruit she goes with I pray for heartily, that it may find Good time, and live. --Shak. 9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away to leave to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come I will let you go that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away --Ex. viii. 28. 10. To pass away to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline to decease; to die. By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath our master sped. --Sir W. Scott. 11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as a line goes across the street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New York. His amorous expressions go no further than virtue may allow --Dryden. 12. To have recourse; to resort; as to go to law. Note: Go is used in combination with many prepositions and adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the preposition or adverb, in which and not in the verb lies the principal force of the expression; as to go against to go into to go out to go aside, to go astray, etc {Go to}, come move go away -- a phrase of exclamation, serious or ironical. {To go a-begging}, not to be in demand; to be undesired. {To go about}. a To set about to enter upon a scheme of action to undertake. ``They went about to slay him.'' --Acts ix 29. They never go about . . . to hide or palliate their vices. --Swift. b (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear. {To go abraod}. a To go to a foreign country. b To go out of doors. c To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be current. Then went this saying abroad among the brethren. --John xxi. 23. {To go against}. a To march against; to attack. b To be in opposition to to be disagreeable to {To go ahead}. a To go in advance. b To go on to make progress; to proceed. {To go and come}. See {To come and go}, under {Come}. {To go aside}. a To withdraw; to retire. He . . . went aside privately into a desert place --Luke. ix 10. b To go from what is right to err. --Num. v. 29. {To go back on}. a To retrace (one's path or footsteps). b To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U. S.] {To go below} (Naut), to go below deck. {To go between}, to interpose or mediate between; to be a secret agent between parties; in a bad sense to pander. {To go beyond}. See under {Beyond}. {To go by}, to pass away unnoticed; to omit. {To go by the board} (Naut.), to fall or be carried overboard; as the mast went by the board. {To go down}. a To descend. b To go below the horizon; as the sun has gone down c To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc d To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively. [Colloq.] Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for truth. --L' Estrange. {To go far}. a To go to a distance. b To have much weight or influence. {To go for}. a To go in quest of b To represent; to pass for c To favor; to advocate. d To attack; to assault. [Low] e To sell for to be parted with for (a price). {To go for nothing}, to be parted with for no compensation or result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count for nothing. {To go forth}. a To depart from a place b To be divulged or made generally known to emanate. The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. --Micah iv 2. {To go hard with}, to trouble, pain, or endanger. {To go in}, to engage in to take part [Colloq.] {To go in and out}, to do the business of life; to live; to have free access --John x. 9. {To go in for}. [Colloq.] a To go for to favor or advocate (a candidate, a measure, etc.). b To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor, preferment, etc.) c To complete for (a reward, election, etc.). d To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else. --Dickens. {To go in to} or {unto}. a To enter the presence of --Esther iv 16. b To have sexual intercourse with [Script.] {To go into}. a To speak of investigate, or discuss (a question, subject, etc.). b To participate in (a war, a business, etc.). {To go large}. (Naut) See under {Large}. {To go off}. a To go away to depart. The leaders . . . will not go off until they hear you --Shak. b To cease; to intermit; as this sickness went off c To die. --Shak. d To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of a gun, a mine, etc e To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of f To pass off to take place to be accomplished. The wedding went off much as such affairs do --Mrs. Caskell. {To go on}. a To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as to go on reading. b To be put or drawn on to fit over as the coat will not go on {To go all fours}, to correspond exactly, point for point. It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours. --Macaulay. {To go out}. a To issue forth from a place b To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition. There are other men fitter to go out than I. --Shak. What went ye out for to see ? --Matt. xi 7, 8, 9. c To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as news fame etc d To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end as the light has gone out Life itself goes out at thy displeasure. --Addison. {To go over}. a To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides. I must not go over Jordan. --Deut. iv 22. Let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan. --Deut. iii. 25. Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites. --Jer. xli. 10. b To read, or study; to examine; to review; as to go over one's accounts. If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that . . . they enjoin the same thing --Tillotson. c To transcend; to surpass. d To be postponed; as the bill went over for the session. e (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance or material); as monoclinic sulphur goes over into orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into dextrose and levulose. {To go through}. a To accomplish; as to go through a work b To suffer; to endure to the end as to go through a surgical operation or a tedious illness. c To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune. d To strip or despoil one of his property. [Slang] e To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.] {To go through with}, to perform, as a calculation, to the end to complete. {To go to ground}. a To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox. b To fall in battle. {To go to naught} (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or unavailling. {To go under}. a To set -- said of the sun. b To be known or recognized by (a name title, etc.). c To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish; to succumb. {To go up}, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail [Slang] {To go upon}, to act upon as a foundation or hypothesis. {To go with}. a To accompany. b To coincide or agree with c To suit; to harmonize with {To go} ( {well}, {ill}, or {hard}) {with}, to affect one in such manner. {To go without}, to be or to remain, destitute of {To go wrong}. a To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or stray. b To depart from virtue. c To happen unfortunately. d To miss success. {To let go}, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold to release. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ill \Ill\, a. [The regular comparative and superlative are wanting, their places being supplied by worseand worst, from another root.] [OE. ill, ille, Icel. illr; akin to Sw illa, adv., Dan. ilde, adv.] 1. Contrary to good, in a physical sense contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable. Neither is it ill air only that maketh an ill seat, but ill ways, ill markets, and ill neighbors. --Bacon. There 's some ill planet reigns. --Shak. 2. Contrary to good, in a moral sense evil; wicked; wrong iniquitious; naughtly; bad improper. Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. --Shak. 3. Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as ill of a fever. I am in health, I breathe, and see thee ill. --Shak. 4. Not according with rule fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude; unpolished; inelegant. That 's an ill phrase. --Shak. {Ill at ease}, uneasy; uncomfortable; anxious. ``I am very ill at ease.'' --Shak. {Ill blood}, enmity; resentment. {Ill breeding}, want of good breeding; rudeness. {Ill fame}, ill or bad repute; as a house of ill fame, a house where lewd persons meet for illicit intercourse. {Ill humor}, a disagreeable mood; bad temper. {Ill nature}, bad disposition or temperament; sullenness; esp., a disposition to cause unhappiness to others {Ill temper}, anger; moroseness; crossness. {Ill turn}. a An unkind act b A slight attack of illness. [Colloq. U.S.] {Ill will}, unkindness; enmity; malevolence. Syn: Bad evil; wrong wicked; sick; unwell. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ill \Ill\, n. 1. Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as the ills of humanity. Who can all sense of others' ills escape Is but a brute at best in human shape. --Tate. That makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of --Shak. 2. Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense wickedness; depravity; iniquity; wrong evil. Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still Exerts itself and then throws off the ill. --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ill \Ill\, adv In a ill manner; badly; weakly. How ill this taper burns! --Shak. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. --Goldsmith. Note: Ill, like above, well and so is used before many participal adjectives, in its usual adverbal sense When the two words are used as an epithet preceding the noun qualified they are commonly hyphened; in other cases they are written separatively as an ill-educated man; he was ill educated; an ill-formed plan the plan however ill formed, was acceptable. Ao also the following: ill-affected or ill affected, ill-arranged or ill arranged, ill-assorted or ill assorted, ill-boding or ill boding, ill-bred or ill bred, ill-conditioned, ill-conducted, ill-considered, ill-devised, ill-disposed, ill-doing, ill-fairing, ill-fated, ill-favored, ill-featured, ill-formed, ill-gotten, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-looking, ill-mannered, ill-matched, ill-meaning, ill-minded, ill-natured, ill-omened, ill-proportioned, ill-provided, ill-required, ill-sorted, ill-starred, ill-tempered, ill-timed, ill-trained, ill-used, and the like From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ill adj 1: not in good physical or mental health; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" [syn: {sick}] [ant: {well}] 2: resulting in suffering or adversity; "ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good" 3: distressing; "ill manners"; "of ill repute" 4: indicating hostility or enmity; "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will" 5: presaging ill-fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley;"a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government" [syn: {inauspicious}, {ominous}] n 1: a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need); "in trouble with the police"; "he wanted to cure the ills of all mankind"; "she was the classic maiden in distress" [syn: {trouble}, {distress}] 2: an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining [syn: {ailment}, {complaint}] adv 1: (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well "he was ill prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-conceived plan" [syn: {badly}, {poorly}] [ant: {well}] 2: unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern" [syn: {badly}] [ant: {well}] 3: with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly; "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"
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