<B>golden buck,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Welsh rabbit (rarebit) with a poached egg on top. </DL>
<A NAME="goldencalf">
<B>golden calf,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an idol made of gold, set up by the Israelites in the wilderness (a popular usage, the passage in the Bible, Exodus 32:4, speaking of a "molten calf"). <DD><B> 2. </B>wealth thought of much too highly. </DL>
<A NAME="goldencalla">
<B>golden calla,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a calla lily having golden-yellow spathes. </DL>
<A NAME="goldencarp">
<B>golden carp,</B> =goldfish.</DL>
<A NAME="goldenchain">
<B>golden chain,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the common laburnum. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenclub">
<B>golden club,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an aquatic plant of the arum family bearing a yellow, club-shaped spadix. It is found along the Atlantic coast from Florida to southern New England. </DL>
<A NAME="goldencrownedkinglet">
<B>golden-crowned kinglet,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a North American kinglet with a yellow or orange crown. </DL>
<A NAME="goldencurrant">
<B>golden currant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a currant of the western United States having round, black berries and fragrant, yellow flowers; Missouri flowering currant. It is popular as a garden plant. </DL>
<A NAME="goldendelicious">
<B>Golden Delicious,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a golden-yellow, oval-shaped apple having a milder flavor than the Delicious apple. </DL>
<A NAME="goldeneagle">
<B>golden eagle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, fierce eagle of the Northern Hemisphere with golden-brown feathers on the top of the head and back of the neck; mountain eagle; ring-tailed eagle. </DL>
<A NAME="goldeneye">
<B>goldeneye, </B>noun, pl. <B>-eyes</B> or (collectively) <B>-eye.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of certain diving ducks with black and white feathers, bright-yellow eyes, and white cheek patches, living in northern areas; whistler; garrot. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenfleece">
<B>Golden Fleece,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Legend.) a fleece of gold taken from a ram. It was guarded by a dragon until Jason and the Argonauts carried it away with the help of Medea, the daughter of Aeetes, King of Colchis, who owned the ram. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenfrontedwoodpecker">
<B>golden-fronted woodpecker,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a black and white woodpecker with yellow on the forehead and abdomen, found from Texas to Costa Rica. </DL>
<A NAME="goldengloves">
<B>Golden Gloves,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) an annual amateur boxing tournament founded in 1926. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenglow">
<B>golden glow,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tall garden plant with showy, globe-shaped, double yellow flowers and a yellow center (disk). It is a variety of rudbeckia and belongs to the composite family. </DL>
<A NAME="goldengoose">
<B>golden goose,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a legendary goose that laid a golden egg every day but was killed by its greedy owner in hope of getting all the gold at once. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenhamster">
<B>golden hamster,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small hamster with short, golden-brown fur, native to Asia Minor and the Balkan peninsula; Syrian hamster. Most hamsters used as laboratory animals and kept as pets are of this species. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenhandshake">
<B>golden handshake,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a large or generous severance pay. <BR> <I>Ex. Premature retirement even with a golden handshake can well lead to extensive frustration and waste of scarce human resources (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="goldenhorde">
<B>Golden Horde,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the section of Russia and central Asia under the control of the Mongols from about 1240 to 1480. <DD><B> 2. </B>the tribe of Mongols who ruled the Golden Horde. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenjubilee">
<B>golden jubilee,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the 50th anniversary of the founding of an organization or similar event. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenloosestrife">
<B>golden loosestrife,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a common species of loosestrife, native to Europe and Asia, having sword-shaped leaves and yellow flowers. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenmean">
<B>golden mean,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the avoidance of extremes; safe, sensible way of doing things; moderation. </DL>
<A NAME="goldennematode">
<B>golden nematode,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an Old World nematode worm which eats the roots of plants, especially of potatoes, now a serious pest in North America. </DL>
<A NAME="goldennumber">
<B>golden number,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the number of any year in the Metonic cycle of 19 years, important in calculating the date of Easter. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenoak">
<B>golden oak,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>oak stained a very light color and varnished. <DD><B> 2. </B>a plant with yellow leaves resembling oak leaves. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenparachute">
<B>golden parachute,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an employment contract guaranteeing continued salary and benefits when control of a company is transferred to new owners. <BR> <I>Ex. Martin Marietta also disclosed that it had given so-called golden parachutes ... to 29 key executives five days after it received the takeover bid from Bendix (Raleigh News and Observer).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="goldenpeziza">
<B>golden peziza,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of edible mushrooms, having an orange-red, cuplike apothecium. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenpheasant">
<B>golden pheasant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various brightly colored pheasants, native to parts of China and Tibet. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenplover">
<B>golden plover,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> either of two plovers having yellowish mottling, one of Europe and one of America. They are noted for their long migrations, the American species nesting in the Arctic and wintering in Hawaii and Central and South America. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenrain">
<B>golden rain,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small Oriental tree of the soapberry family introduced in other areas for its panicles of golden flowers. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenretriever">
<B>golden retriever,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a medium-sized dog with a golden, water-resistant coat, used in hunting to retrieve game, especially waterfowl. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenrobin">
<B>golden robin,</B> =Baltimore oriole.</DL>
<A NAME="goldenrod">
<B>goldenrod, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of plants with tall stalks of small yellow flowers. It blooms in late summer or early autumn. Goldenrod belongs to the composite family. The blossom of various species is the state flower of Kentucky and Nebraska. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenrose">
<B>golden rose,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rose made of pure gold, blessed by the Pope on the fourth Sunday of Lent, and occasionally sent as a mark of special honor to some Catholic sovereign or other notable person, or to some church, city, or other civic unit. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenrule">
<B>golden rule,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the rule of conduct which states that a person should treat others as he would expect them to treat him. It was set forth by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount: "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them" (in the Bible, Matthew 7:12, Luke 6:31). </DL>
<A NAME="goldenseal">
<B>goldenseal, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a North American plant of the crowfoot family, whose thick, yellow rootstock (rhizome) is used in medicine; orangeroot. <DD><B> 2. </B>the rootstock and roots. </DL>
<A NAME="goldensection">
<B>golden section,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the geometric proportion that results when a straight line is divided in such a way that the shorter part is to the longer part as the longer part is to the whole. The golden section was first formulated by Euclid and has been used widely in art and architecture to produce harmonious geometric figures. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenshiner">
<B>golden shiner,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, freshwater minnow, commonly found in eastern North America, having silver scales that reflect a gold color. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenstate">
<B>Golden State,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a nickname of California. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenwarbler">
<B>golden warbler,</B> =yellow warbler.</DL>
<A NAME="goldenwattle">
<B>golden wattle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various Australian acacias having yellow flowers, especially a species whose blossom is, unofficially, the floral emblem of Australia. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenwedding">
<B>golden wedding,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the fiftieth anniversary of a wedding. </DL>
<A NAME="goldenwingedwoodpecker">
<B>golden-winged woodpecker,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the yellow-shafted flicker. </DL>
<A NAME="goldexchangestandard">
<B>gold-exchange standard,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a monetary system in which the government promises to redeem its money at an established rate of exchange with money of some other country on the gold standard. </DL>
<A NAME="goldeye">
<B>goldeye, </B>noun, pl. <B>-eyes</B> or (collectively) <B>-eye.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a freshwater game fish of North America, resembling the herring. It is an important food fish in parts of Canada. </DL>
<A NAME="goldfern">
<B>gold fern,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several ferns in which the undersurface of the frond is covered with bright yellow powder, giving a golden color. </DL>
<A NAME="goldfield">
<B>gold field,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a district or region in which gold is found. </DL>
<A NAME="goldfilled">
<B>gold-filled, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> made of a cheap metal covered with a layer of gold. </DL>
<A NAME="goldfinch">
<B>goldfinch, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small American songbird the male of which is yellow with black patches; yellowbird. It belongs to the same family as the sparrows. <DD><B> 2. </B>a European songbird of the same family with a patch of yellow on its wings; redcap. </DL>
<B>goldfish, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fishes</B> or (collectively) <B>-fish.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small fish, usually of a reddish or golden color; golden carp. Goldfish are often kept in garden pools or in glass bowls indoors. They belong to the same family as the carp. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) canned salmon. </DL>
<A NAME="goldfishbowl">
<B>goldfish bowl,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, round, glass bowl in which goldfish and other small fish are kept as pets. <BR><I>expr. <B>in a goldfish bowl,</B> </I>openly; publicly. <BR> <I>Ex. It is impossible to negotiate ... in a goldfish bowl (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="goldflower">
<B>goldflower, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several plants or herbs having yellow or golden-yellow flowers, especially a hybrid of St.-John's-wort. </DL>
<A NAME="goldfoil">
<B>gold foil,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> gold beaten into a thin sheet. It is thicker than gold leaf. </DL>
