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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Going \Go"ing\, n.
1. The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going
is bad.
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2. Departure. --Milton.
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3. Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing. --Crew.
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4. pl. Course of life; behavior; doings; ways.
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His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all
his goings. --Job xxxiv.
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{Going barrel}. (Horology)
(a) A barrel containing the mainspring, and having teeth
on its periphery to drive the train.
(b) A device for maintaining a force to drive the train
while the timepiece is being wound up.
{Going forth}. (Script.)
(a) Outlet; way of exit. "Every going forth of the
sanctuary." --Ezek. xliv. 5.
(b) A limit; a border. "The going forth thereof shall be
from the south to Kadesh-barnea." --Num. xxxiv. 4.
{Going out}, or {Goings out}. (Script.)
(a) The utmost extremity or limit. "The border shall go
down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at
the salt sea." --Num. xxxiv. 12.
(b) Departure or journeying. "And Moses wrote their goings
out according to their journeys." --Num. xxxiii. 2.
{Goings on}, behavior; actions; conduct; -- usually in a bad
sense.