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; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation. Burke.

eaty. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government. Constitution of the U. S.

Government. [Obs.]

To govern. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The act of governing; government [Obs.] I. Watts.

Governing. [Obs.]

Pertaining to a governor, or to government.

The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading. His studies were without guidance and without plan. Macaulay.

; as, the Stationers' Guild; the Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority.

To guide; to govern. [Obs.] Discreet enough his country for to gye. Chaucer.

Government by a woman. Chesterfield.

Government by a woman, female power; gyneocracy. Bailey.

Female government; gynecocracy. The aforesaid state has repeatedly changed from absolute despotism to republicanism, not forgetting the intermediate stages of oligarchy, limited monarchy, and even gynocracy; for I myself remember Alsatia governed for nearly nine months by an old fishwoman. Sir H. Scott.…

A sacred government; by holy orders of men. Southey.

Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.

in hand one year's tribute." Knolles. Albinus . . . found means to keep in his hands the goverment of Britain. Milton.

Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. W. E. Griffis.

Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard- mouthed horse.

A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them.

Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden.