The Collaborative International Dictionary
Going \Go"ing\, n.
The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad.
Departure.
--Milton.Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing.
--Crew.-
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 barrel containing the mainspring, and having teeth on its periphery to drive the train.
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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.
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(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.)
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.-
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.
Usage examples of "going forth".
Outside, there is the stirring of birds among the leaves, or the sound of men going forth to their work, or the sigh and sob of the wind coming down from the hills, and wandering round the silent house, as though it feared to wake the sleepers, and yet must needs call forth sleep from her purple cave.
A merry going forth bringeth often a sorrowful return, and a merry evening maketh a sad morning?
We are seeking to imbue these young men who are going forth as leaders of their people with the feeling that the great task of uplifting the race, though it may be for others merely a work of humanity, for them, and every other member of the Negro race, is a work of religion.
Before going forth, she cast one farewell look at Seymour, who stood as if transfixed by despair.
A more tender-hearted man, possessing his vision and his knowledge, might have found cause for tears in the contemplation of these ardent, simple, Nonconformist sheep going forth to the shambles - escorted to the rallying ground on Castle Field by wives and daughters, sweethearts and mothers, sustained by the delusion that they were to take the field in defence of Right, of Liberty, and of Religion.
It was an inspiration on his part to assume the role of the hero going forth to a possible death.
Indeed, from our point of vantage on the hill we could see troops mustering, and runners going forth from Loo in every direction, doubtless to summon soldiers to the king's assistance.
Trenchard looked at him keenly, with well-assumed intent to read what might be passing in his mind, then rose, paid for the wine, and expressed his intention of going forth to inquire into these strange matters that were happening in Bridgwater.