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Goings out

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)

    1. A barrel containing the mainspring, and having teeth on its periphery to drive the train.

    2. 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.)

    1. 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.

    2. 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.