gouty (gout i)

[ Not giving like to those whose gifts, though scant, Pain them as if they gaue with gowty hand. Sir W. Davenant, Gondibert, i. 6. 2. Pertaining to the gout: as, gouty matter. 3. Figuratively, swollen out of proper prop or tion; tumid; protuberant. This humour in historians hath made the body of ancient J. Spencer, Prodigies, p. 105. history in some parts so gouty and monstrous. Seed barley, the purest, gove out of the way; All other nigh hand, gove just as ye may. Tu er, Husbandry, August. gove2 (gov), v. i.; pret. and pp. goved, ppr. got ing. [Sc., also written goare and go if; ef. goff1, n.] To go about staring like a fool; stare stupidly. How he star'd and stammer'd, When goavan , as if led wi' branks,.. He in the parlour hammer'd. Burns , On Meeting with Basil, Lord Daer. The wild beasts of the forest came, Broke from their bughts and faulds the tame, And goved around charmed and amazed. IMG:content-2541.png:[blocks in formation] 'Tis not folly, But good discretion, governs our main fortunes. Fletcher, Wit without Money, iii. L My Lord Sandwich was prudent as well as valiant, and always govern'd his affaires with succe e and little lo e. Evelyn , Diary, May 31, 1672 Specifically-2. To rule or regulate by right of authority; control according to law or prescription; exercise magisterial, official, or eustomary power over: as, to govern a state, a church, a bank, a household, etc. But if ony widowe hath sones or children of sones, lerne sche first to gouerne hir hous. Wyclif , 1 Tim. v. 4 (Oxf.). Can thy flocks be thriving, when the fold Is govern'd by the fox? Quarles , Emblems, i. 15. I have no fear but that the result of our experiment will be, that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. Jefferson, Correspondence, П. 174. 3. In gram., to cause or require to be in a par rule is ticular form: as, a transitive verb or a preposi tion governs a noun or pronoun in the objective case; the po e ive case is governed by the thing po e ed; the subject governs the verb in number and person. =Syn. 1 and 2. Rule, Control, Govern, Regulate, Manage; conduct, supervise, guide: cole matt end is the only one that can stand for the exercise of an arbitrary or a loose kind of sway. Control implies a firm rule, which may not attend to the details of administration, but holds persons in check and prevents things from going in a way not desired: as, to control expenditures; to control fierce tribes. Gorern implies the constant use of knowledge and judgment, like the close attention given by a pilot to his wheel. To regulate is to bring under rules, hence to make exact; it is not ordinarily used to expre continued action, but it may mean to keep under rule: as, to regulate a watch, one's movements, one's conduct, the administration of a province. Manage enlarges the notion of handling a horse or caring for the affairs of a household to greater things, as a ship, a busine , a nation; it implies great attention to details, constant watchfulne , and much skill or at least adroitne ; it is rather a small word to be used as a synonym for govern. See guide, v. t., and man age. II. in trans. To exercise or have control: practise direction or guidance; especially, to exercise legal or customary authority. To instruct ourselves in all the amazing le ons of God's governing providence, by which he holds the balance of nations, and inclines it which way he pleases. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, L. vii. Your wicked atoms may be working now To give bad counsel, that you still may govern . Dryden. The limits which separate the power of checking those be denned who govern from the power of governing are not easily to Macaulay , Sir William Temple. governable (guv'er-na-bl), a . [ govern + -able .] Capable of being governed or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; amenable to law or rule. governable The causes of these effects remain unknown, so as not to be governable by human means. Bacon , Physical Fables, x., Expl. note. It [the storm] came on very fierce, and we kept right before the wind and sea, the wind still increasing: the ship was very governable and steered incomparably well. Dampier , Voyages, III., an. 1699. So little a while ago that face had moved with every change of sentiment, that pale mouth had spoken, that body had been all on fire with governable energies. R. L. Stevens on, Markheim.