the head of a state government

a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine ( as by controlling the supply of fuel)

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.

One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.

A pilot; a steersman.

A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable.

The chief executive of a state; one who is clothed with great legal authority; chief ruler; a mechanical device for regulating the speed of an engine.

Governorship.

The chief executive officer of a State of the American Union: a ruler: one invested with supreme authority: a tutor: ( machinery) a regulator, or contrivance for maintaining uniform velocity with a varying resistance: ( B.) a pilot.

Chief magistrate; ruler.

One who governs; chief executive of a state; a regulator, as of the speed of machinery.

One invested with supreme authority; a ruler; a tutor; a pilot; a pair of heavy balls connected with machinery, and designed to equalize the speed of steam- engines by operating on the throttle- valve of the engine.

One who rules or directs; one who is invested with supreme authority; a ruler; a tutor; in a machine, a contrivance for maintaining a uniform velocity with varying resistance; a regulator.

There were plenty who agreed with the governor. – The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther

Then Belisarius will be Governor of Italy- for it will not last a year with the purple Prince- and he will wear away his fine strength here in idleness, when there is work enough to do in Persia. – A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Felix Dahn

Farther to the south is the hill of Philopappus, so called after a Roman governor of that name. – Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by John Lloyd Stephens

" That must not be for very long, Governor," observed Captain Wilson. – Mr. Midshipman Easy by Captain Frederick Marryat

We were received by Governor Long, at the State House. – Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I believe the governor- general was there, or some great person. – Old Jack by W.H.G. Kingston

The governor will give way at last, I should say. – Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope

I'm sorry for it, governor, with all my heart! – The World's Greatest Books, Vol III by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

Is it you, Governor? – Loaded Dice by Ellery H. Clark

Did your governor send the money? – The Underdog by F. Hopkinson Smith

But still I think dear Governor and Will will be pretty comfortable this winter. – Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner

The opinion of the governor, they said, is but the opinion of one man. – Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam by John S. C. Abbott

By the end of the second day the new governor had seized the Admiral's house. – Christopher Columbus by Mildred Stapley

What have you been doing all to- day, Governor? – Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner

Just as hard, Willis found out that the governor had told his tailor to make the boy all the clothes he wanted. – Frank Merriwell's Races by Burt L. Standish

It's a good thing as far as the boy's concerned, but I do feel sorry for his governor. – Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories Emerson's Wife -- Colonel Kate's Protégée -- The Kid of Apache Teju -- A Blaze on Pard Huff -- How Colonel Kate Won Her Spurs -- Hollyhocks -- The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Johnson Sides -- A Piece of Wreckag by Florence Finch Kelly

Their destination had not been the palace of the Governor; but that of the chief of the Moscow Third Section. – The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter

Let me introduce you to Lady Holmhurst, wife of Lord Holmhurst, the New Zealand Governor, you know. – Mr. Meeson's Will by H. Rider Haggard

Screwby, take Master Miles to his governor. – The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

I went to the Governor, but he gave me no comfort. – Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan