Go"ing, p. pr. of Go. Specif.:
(a) That goes; in existence; available for
present use or enjoyment; current; obtainable; also, moving; working;
in operation; departing; as, he is of the brightest men going;
going prices or rate. (b) Carrying
on its ordinary business; conducting business, or carried on, with an
indefinite prospect of continuance; -- chiefly used in the phrases
a going business, concern,
etc. (c) Of or pert. to a going business or
concern; as, the going value of a company.
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)
(a) A barrel containing the mainspring, and
having teeth on its periphery to drive the train.
(b) 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.) (a)
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. (b) 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.