1. In a general sense, to move; to pass; to proceed from one place, state or station to another; opposed to resting. A mill goes by water or by steam; a ship goes at the rate of five knots an hour; a clock goes fast or slow; a horse goes lame; a fowl or a ball goes with velocity through the air.

The mourners go about the streets. Eccl 12.

2. To walk; to move on the feet or step by step. The child begins to go alone at a year old.

You know that love

Will creep in service where it cannot go.

3. To walk leisurely; not to run.

Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long that going will scarce serve the turn.

4. To travel; to journey by land or water. I must go to Boston. He has gone to Philadelphia. The minister is going to France.

5. To depart; to move from a place; opposed to come. The mail goes and comes every day, or twice a week.

I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice. Exo 8.

6. To proceed; to pass.

And so the jest goes round.

7. To move; to pass in any manner or to any end; as, to go to bed; to go to dinner; to go to war.

8. To move or pass customarily from place to place, denoting custom or practice. The child goes to school. A ship goes regularly to London. We go to church.

9. To proceed from one state or opinion to another; to change. He goes from one opinion to another. His estate is going to ruin.

10. To proceed in mental operations; to advance; to penetrate. We can go but a very little way in developing the causes of things.

11. To proceed or advance in accomplishing an end. This sun will not go far towards full payment of the debt.

12. To apply; to be applicable. The argument goes to this point only; it goes to prove too much.

13. To apply one's self.

See ing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood.

14. To have recourse to; as, to go to law.

15. To be about to do; as, I was going to say. I am going to begin harvest. A machine with wheels, in which children learn to walk without danger of falling.