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noun

Goldsmith n.

An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments, etc., of gold.

A banker. (Obs.) Note: The goldsmiths of London formerly received money on deposit because they were prepared to keep it safely.

Goldsmith beetle (Zool.), a large, bright yellow, American beetle (Cotalpa lanigera), of the family Scarabaeidae

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... weight, out of real three-and-twenty carat gold, without any admixture of baser metal, so that they absolutely could not be distinguished from the royal ducats of the authorized minting towns, Koermoecz and Gyulafehervar. If they fell into the hands of a goldsmith, and he melted them, he found that they did not contain half a grain more silver than the genuine ones. Indeed the public lost nothing by their fabrication, though ...

— The Poor Plutocrats • Maurus Jokai

... the fables of antiquity has been oftener alluded to by the poets than that of Narcissus. Here are two epigrams which treat it in different ways. The first is by Goldsmith: ...

— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch

... how the ancients looked and felt and wrote; the abundant evidence takes us back to the cave-dwellers. But all the old languages are dead, and the literary form is their embalmment. We do not even know definitely how Shakespeare's and Goldsmith's plays were pronounced on the stage in the theatres of the time; while it is only a guess that perhaps Chaucer would sound much more ...

— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

... century, viewed in a literary sense alone, have never had their superiors in English literature. The works of Addison, Pope, Gray, Thomson, Goldsmith, and Johnson will continue to be classics wherever the English language is spoken. The British metropolis was pervaded with the atmosphere of Parnassus. It was a time when literature was the El Dorado of youth ...

— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst

... Atterbury, Bunyan, Goldsmith, Johnson, and Pitt, contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh thousand. Fcap. 8vo, with Portrait by Maull and ...

— Elements of Agricultural Chemistry • Thomas Anderson

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