dictionary definitions for "goings out"


From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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