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Going out

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Going \Go"ing\, n.
   1. The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going
      is bad.

   2. Departure. --Milton.

   3. Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing. --Crew.

   4. pl. Course of life; behavior; doings; ways.

            His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all
            his goings.                           --Job xxxiv.
                                                  21.

   {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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