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Goat
A Goat is
used in coat armour; but it is hard to guess what induc’d them that took them
for their arms, unless it were to denote that they had subdu’d their passions,
or that they had conquer’d some enemy, who was subject to the viciousness of
goats.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Goat *
A wild Goat [Hieroglyphically]