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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. [1913 Webster] 2. Departure. --Milton. [1913
Webster] 3. Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing. --Crew. [1913
Webster] 4. pl. Course of life; behavior; doings; ways. [1913
Webster] His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his
goings. --Job xxxiv. 21. [1913 Webster] 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 o