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Management; mastery. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.

A governess. Sir W. Scott.

A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.

Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state. Jay.

The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.

Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.

One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania. "The governor of the town." Shak.

A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of Canada, of India.

The office of a governor.

The daisy, or mountain daisy. [Scot.] And pu'd the gowans fine. Burns.

Having, abounding in, or decked with, daisies. [Scot.] Sweeter than gowany glens or new-mown hay. Ramsay.

Gold; wealth. [Scot.] The man's the gowd for a' that. Burns.

Golden. [Scot.]

See Dragont. [Scot.]

The saury pike; -- called also gofnick.

To make a, booby of one); to stupefy. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To howl. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.

Dressed in a gown; clad. Gowned in pure white, that fitted to the shape. Tennyson.