Chapter Gnomic to Go of G by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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To go on. (a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to go on reading. (b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will not go on. — To go all fours, to correspond exactly, point for point.

It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours.

Macaulay.

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To go out. (a) To issue forth from a place. (b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition.

There are other men fitter to go out than I.

Shak.

What went ye out for to see ?

Matt. xi. 7, 8, 9.

(c) To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as news, fame etc. (d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as, the light has gone out.

Life itself goes out at thy displeasure.

Addison.

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To go over. (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides.

I must not go over Jordan.

Deut. iv. 22.

Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan.

Deut. iii. 25.

Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites.

Jer. xli. 10.

(b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go over one's accounts.

If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that . . . they enjoin the same thing.

Tillotson.

(c) To transcend; to surpass. (d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the session. (e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into dextrose and levulose. —

To go through. (a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work. (b) To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a surgical operation or a tedious illness. (c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune. (d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang] (e) To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.] — To go through with, to perform, as a calculation, to the end; to complete. — To go to ground. (a) To escape into a hole; — said of a hunted fox. (b) To fall in battle. — To go to naught to prove abortive, or unavailling. — To go under. (a) To set; — said of the sun. (b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.). (c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish; to succumb. — To go up, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail. [Slang] — To go upon, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis. — To go with. (a) To accompany. (b) To coincide or agree with. (c) To suit; to harmonize with. — To go(well, ill, or hard) with, to affect (one) in such manner. — To go without, to be, or to remain, destitute of. — To go wrong. (a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or stray. (b) To depart from virtue. (c) To happen unfortunately. (d) To miss success. — To let go, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to release.

Go
(Go) v. t.

1. To take, as a share in an enterprise; to undertake or become responsible for; to bear a part in.

They to go equal shares in the booty.

L'Estrange.

2. To bet or wager; as, I'll go you a shilling. [Colloq.]

To go halves, to share with another equally. — To go it, to behave in a wild manner; to be uproarious; to carry on; also, to proceed; to make progress. [Colloq.] — To go it alone (Card Playing), to play a hand without the assistance of one's partner. — To go it blind. (a) To act in a rash, reckless, or headlong