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GOAT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("goat" is a kind of...):
bovid (hollow-horned ruminants)
Meronyms (parts of "goat"):
horn (one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates)
beard (hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "goat"):
kid (young goat)
billy; billy goat; he-goat (male goat)
nanny; nanny-goat; she-goat (female goat)
Capra hircus; domestic goat (any of various breeds of goat raised for milk or meat or wool)
wild goat (undomesticated goat)
Holonyms ("goat" is a member of...):
Capra; genus Capra (goats)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The tenth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about December 22 to January 19
Synonyms:
Capricorn; Capricorn the Goat; Goat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
house; mansion; planetary house; sign; sign of the zodiac; star sign ((astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Capricorn
Synonyms:
Capricorn; Goat
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Goat" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Domain category:
astrology; star divination (a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A victim of ridicule or pranks
Synonyms:
butt; goat; laughingstock; stooge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("goat" is a kind of...):
dupe; victim (a person who is tricked or swindled)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "goat"):
April fool (the butt of a prank played on April 1st)
Context examples:
Scrapie, which affects sheep and goats and can be adapted to rodents, is closely related to human prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which is currently untreatable.
(Experimental treatment slows prion disease, extends life of mice, National Institutes of Health)
And Summerlee, too, there he was with his short briar between his thin moustache and his gray goat's-beard, his worn face protruded in eager debate as he queried all Challenger's propositions.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These are usually from cows (bovine) but are also from goats, sheep, reindeer, and water buffalo.
(Dairy Product, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The taxonomic order of mammals that includes even-toed ungulates such as pigs, cows, goats and sheep.
(Artiodactyla, NCI Thesaurus)
The two men had stood up to each other, Jim as light upon his feet as a goat, with his left well out and his right thrown across the lower part of his chest, while Berks held both arms half extended and his feet almost level, so that he might lead off with either side.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Their heads and breasts were covered with a thick hair, some frizzled, and others lank; they had beards like goats, and a long ridge of hair down their backs, and the fore parts of their legs and feet; but the rest of their bodies was bare, so that I might see their skins, which were of a brown buff colour.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Soon afterwards the old goat came home again from the forest.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
It is the country of the wolf and the isard, of the brown bear and the mountain-goat, a land of bare rock and of rushing water.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You'll bathe, and you'll climb trees, and you'll hunt goats, you will; and you'll get aloft on them hills like a goat yourself.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
But when I found that we were actually to sleep out there without covering every night, and that he proposed that our food should be the sheep of the Downs (wild goats he called them) cooked upon a fire, which was to be made by the rubbing together of two sticks, my heart failed me, and on the very first night I crept away to my mother.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
