n. A fragment of anything shattered; — used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as to break a glass into shatters. Swift. { Shat´ter-brained• , Shat´ter-pat•ed } a. Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.

v. i. To express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation ´ Pshaw!´ “The goodman used regularly to frown and pshaw wherever this topic was touched upon.” Sir W. Scott.

a. [Compar. Pithier superl. Pithiest.] 
1. Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as a pithy stem; a pithy fruit. 
2. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent. “This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed.” Dryden. “In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy.” Addison. Pithy gall (Zoöl.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly (Diastrophus nebulosus).

a. Not frugal; wasteful; as an infrugal expense of time. J. Goodman.

a. [L. incogitans; pref. in- not + cogitans, p. pr. of cogitare to think. See Cogitate.] Thoughtless; inconsiderate. [R.] Milton. “Men are careless and incogitant.” J. Goodman.

n. [Good + man] 
1. A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to ´My friend´, ´Good sir´, ´Mister;´ — sometimes used ironically. [Obs.] “With you, goodman boy, an you please.” Shak. 
2. A husband; the master of a house or family; — often used in speaking familiarly. [Archaic] Chaucer. “Say ye to the goodman of the house, … Where is the guest-chamber ?” Mark xiv. 14. In the early colonial records of New England, the term goodman is frequently used as a title of designation, sometimes in a respectful manner, to denote a person whose first name was not known, or when it was not desired to use that name; in this use it was nearly equivalent to Mr. This use was doubtless brought with the first settlers from England.

a. 1. Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; — used in composition. Beau. & Fl. 
2. Broken in the back. [Obs.] “He’s chined, goodman.
Beau. & Fl.”

a. Low; vulgar. [R.] “Apish tricks and buffoonly discourse.
Goodman.”

a. Blind; stupid. [Obs.] ´A formal and bayardly round of duties.´ Goodman.