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Goat
Goat is
the emblem of lasciviousness and wantonness and represents an harlot; because
the goat does much mischief with its teeth, gnawing and destroying trees and
plants, and so a harlot does no less harm to men by alluring them with her
mouth to their ruin.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
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