governorship (guv ern or ship)

[ of an Indian kite, Milvus govinda. gov't. A contraction of government. gow (gou), n. A Scotch form of gull2. gowan (gou'an), n. [Sc., We twa hae run about the braes, An' pu'd the gowans fine. Burns, Auld Lang Syne. They [the sheets] were washed wi' the fairy-well water, and bleached on the bonnie white gowans , and beetled by Scott , Guy Manner ing, xxiv. Nelly and her sell. Lapper or lock in gowan, the globe-flower, Trollius Europœus . Meadow-gowan, or open gowan, the marsh-marigold, Caltha palustris . gowany (gou'a-ni), a. [ 2586