Definition of goods:

• In contracts. The term “goods” is not so wide as “chattels,” for it applies to inanimate objects, and does not Include animals or chattels real, as a lease for years of house or land, which “chattels” does include. Co. Litt. 118; St. Joseph Hydraulic Co. v.Wilson, 133 Ind. 405, 33 N. E. 113;Van Patten v. Leonard, 55 Iowa, 520, S N. W. 334; Putnam v. Westcott, 19 Johns. ( N.Y.) 7G.In wills. In wills “goods” is nomen generalissimo, and, if there is nothing to limit it, will comprehend all the personal estate of the testator, as stocks, bonds, notes,money, plate, furniture, etc. Kendall v. Kendall, 4 Russ. 370; Chamberlain v. Western Transp. Co., 44 N. Y. 310, 4 Am. Rep. 081 ; Foxall v. McKenney, 9 Fed. Cas. 045; Raileyv. Duncan, 2 T. I!. Mon. ( Ky.) 22; Keyser v. School Dist., 35 N. II. 483.
• Household furniture; wares; merchandise.
• Movables; furniture; merchandise.
• articles of commerce
• Household furniture; moveable property; articles of merchandise. Goods and chattels, personal property. Goods- train, a railway train conveying luggage or general merchandise. Goods truck, a railway wagon for goods.

Usage examples for goods

1. In the village market- place is sold all kinds of German goods.  Samantha at the World's Fair by Marietta Holley

2. Almost all these people were laden with their household goods and gods.  A Canterbury Pilgrimage by Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell

3. American tinned goods in the mountains of Peru!  Boy Scouts in an Airship by G. Harvey Ralphson

4. Many feel that they have no right to waste the goods given them in a life of solitary mourning.  Saracinesca by F. Marion Crawford