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A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.

The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy. [Obs.] The enemies of God . . . call our religion statism. South.

A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government. [Obs.] Statists indeed, And lovers of their country. Milton.

Government by the state, or by political power, in distinction from government by ecclesiastical power. [R.] O. A. Brownson.

To direct the course of; to guide; to govern; -- applied especially to a vessel in the water. That with a staff his feeble steps did steer. Spenser.

A rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.

er company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the…

ef, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.

A military government; government by military chiefs and an army.

Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath. "Through the strict senteries." Milton.

A province; a government, as of a viceroy; also, a subahdar. [India]

A viceroy; a governor of a subah; also, a native captain in the British native army. [India]

Specifically: One who is under the authority of a ruler and is governed by his laws; one who owes allegiance to a sovereign or a sovereign state; as, a subject of Queen Victoria; a British subject; a subject of the United States. Was never subject longed to be a king, As I do long and wish to be a subject. Shak. The su…

The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government of another; a state of obedience or submissiveness; as, the safety of life, liberty, and property depends on our subjection to the laws. "To be bound under subjection." Chaucer. Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands. 1 Peter iii…

ing under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish. He subjugated a king, and called him his "vassal." Baker.

ct of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance. Submission, dauphin! 't is a mere French word; We English warrious wot not what it means. Shak.

A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation, or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public; a subvention; as, a subsidy to the owners of a line of ocean steamships.

A government aid or bounty.

throw; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. The subversion [by a storm] of woods and timber . . . through my whole estate. Evelyn. Laws have been often abused to the oppression and subversion…

Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power. He that is the supreme King of kings. Shak.