Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: GOURD – GOV'ERN-OR-SHIP
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GOURD, n. [Fr. courge; D. kauwoerde. Qu. the root of gherkin.]
A plant and its fruit, of the genus Lagenaria. The shell is sometimes used for a piggin or for a bottle.
GOURD'I-NESS, n.
A swelling on a horse's leg after a journey. Far. Dict.
GOURD'-TREE, n.
A tree, the Crescentia, or Calabash, found in the West Indies. Fam. of Plants.
GOURD'Y, a.
Swelled in the legs.
GOUR'MAND, n. [See GORMAND.]
GOUT, n.1 [Fr. goutte, a drop, the gout; the disease being considered as a defluxion; It. gotta; Sp. gota; Ir. guta; L. gutta. Qu. Pers. كُوتْ kot, hot, infirm in the feet.]
- The Podagra, a painful disease of the small joints, but sometimes affecting the stomach. It is often periodical or intermitting. Coxe.
- A drop. [Not used.]. Shak.
GOUT, n.2 [goo; Fr. from L. gustus; taste.]
Taste; relish.
GOUT'I-LY, adv.
In a gouty manner.
GOUT'I-NESS, n.
The state of being subject to the gout; gouty affections.
GOUT'SWELL-ED, a.
Swelled with the gout.
GOUT'WORT, n.
A plant, the Ægopodium.
GOUT'Y, a.
- Diseased with the gout, or subject to the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint; a gouty constitution.
- Pertaining to the gout; as, gouty matter. Blackmore.
- Swelled; boggy; as, gouty land. [Not in use.] Spenser.
GOVE, n.
A mow. [Local.]
GOV'ERN, v.i.
- To exercise authority; to administer the laws. The chief magistrate should govern with impartiality.
- To maintain the superiority; to have the control. Dryden.
GOV'ERN, v.t. [Fr. gouverner; Sp. gobernar; It. governare; L. guberno. The L. guberno seems to be a compound.]
- To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority; to keep within the limits prescribed by law or sovereign will. Thus in free states, men are governed by the constitution and laws; in despotic states, men are governed by the edicts or commands of a monarch. Every man should govern well his own family.
- To regulate; to influence; to direct. This is the chief point by which he is to govern all his counsels and actions.
- To control; to restrain; to keep in due subjection; as, to govern the passions or temper.
- To direct; to steer; to regulate the course or motion of a ship. The helm or the helmsman governs the ship.
- In grammar, to require to be in a particular case; as, a verb transitive governs a word in the accusative case; or to require a particular case; as, a verb governs the accusative case.
GOV'ERN-A-BLE, a.
That may be governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient; submissive to law or role. Locke.
GOV'ERN-ANCE, n.
Government; exercise of authority; direction; control; management, either of a public officer, or of a private guardian or tutor. Maccabees. Shak.
GOV'ERN-ANT, n. [Fr. gouvernante.]
A lady who has the care and management of young females; a governess. [The latter is more generally used.]
GOV'ERN-ED, pp.
Directed; regulated by authority; controlled; managed; influenced; restrained.
GOV'ERN-ESS, n.
A female invested with authority to control and direct; a tutoress; an instructress; a woman who has the care of instructing and directing young ladies.
GOV'ERN-ING, ppr.
- Directing; controlling; regulating by laws or edicts; managing; influencing; restraining.
- adj. Holding the superiority; prevalent; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state. – Federalist, Jay.
- Directing; controlling; as, a governing motive.
GOV'ERN-MENT, n.
- Direction; regulation. These precepts will serve for the government of our conduct.
- Control; restraint. Men are apt to neglect the government of their temper and passions.
- The exercise of authority; direction and restraint exercised over the actions of men in communities, societies or states; the administration of public affairs, according to established constitution, laws and usages, or by arbitrary edicts. Prussia rose to importance under the government of Frederic II.
- The exercise of authority by a parent or household. Children are often ruined by a neglect of government in parents. Let family government be like that of our heavenly Father, mild, gentle, and affectionate. – Kollock.
- The system of polity in a state; that form of fundamental rules and principles by which a nation or state is governed, or by which individual members of a body politic are to regulate their social actions; a constitution, either written or unwritten, by which the rights and duties of citizens and public officers are prescribed and defined; as, a monarchial government, or a republican government. Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without the pretense of miracle or mystery, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind. – J. Adams.
- An empire, kingdom or state; any territory over which the right of sovereignty is extended.
- The right of governing or administering the laws. The King of England vested the government of Ireland in the lord lieutenant.
- The persons or council which administer the laws of a kingdom or state; executive power.
- Manageableness; compliance; obsequiousness. – Shak.
- Regularity of behavior. [Not in use.] – Shak.
- Management of the limbs or body. [Not in use.] Spencer.
- In grammar, the influence of a word in regard to construction, as when established usage requires that one word should cause another to be in a particular case or mode.
GOV-ERN-MENT'AL, a.
Pertaining to government; made by government. Hamilton.
GOV'ERN-OR, n.
- He that governs, rules or directs; one invested with supreme authority. The Creator is the rightful governor of all his creatures.
- One who is invested with supreme authority to administer or enforce the laws; the supreme executive magistrate of a state, community, corporation or post. Thus, in America, each state has its governor; Canada has its governor.
- A tutor; one who has the care of a young man; one who instructs him and forms his manners.
- A pilot; one who steers a ship. James iii.
- One possessing delegated authority. Joseph was governor over the land of Egypt. Obadiah was governor over Ahab's house. Damascus had a governor under Aretes the king.
GOV'ERN-OR-SHIP, n.
The office of a governor.