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Governor Gov"ern*or, n. [OE. governor, governour, OF. governeor, F. gouverneur, fr. L. gubernator steersman, ruler, governor. See Govern.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster]

2. One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian. [1913 Webster]

3. (Naut.) A pilot; a steersman. [R.] [1913 Webster]

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

Note: The illustration shows a form of governor commonly used for steam engines, in wich a heavy sleeve (a) sliding on a rapidly revolving spindle (b), driven by the engine, is raised or lowered, when the speed varies, by the changing centrifugal force of two balls (c c) to which it is connected by links (d d), the balls being attached to arms (e e) which are jointed to the top of the spindle. The sleeve is connected with the throttle valve or cut-off through a lever (f), and its motion produces a greater supply of steam when the engine runs too slowly and a less supply when too fast. [1913 Webster]

{Governor cut-off} (Steam Engine), a variable cut-off gear in which the governor acts in such a way as to cause the steam to be cut off from entering the cylinder at points of the stroke dependent upon the engine s speed.

{Hydraulic governor} (Mach.), a governor which is operated by the action of a liquid in flowing; a cataract. [1913 Webster]

Governor general Gov"ern*or gen"er*al A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of Canada, of India. [1913 Webster]

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Bible Dictionary

Governor
In the Authorized Version this one English word is therepresentative of no less than ten Hebrew and four Greek words.

The chief of a tribe or family.

A ruler in his capacity of lawgiver and dispenser of justice.

A ruler consider especially as having power over the propertyand persons of his subjects. (genesis 24:2; joshua 12:2;psalms 100:20) The "governors of the people," in (2chronicles 23:20) appear to have been the king s body-guard;cf. (2 kings 11:19)

A prominent personage, whatever his capacity. It is appliedto a king as the military and civil chief of his people, (2samuel 5:2; 6:21; 1 chronicles 29:22) to the general of anarmy, (2 chronicles 32:21) and to the head of a tribe. (2chronicles 19:11) It denotes an officer of high rank in thepalace, the lord high chamberlain. (2 chronicles 28:7) It isapplied in (1 kings 10:15) to the petty chieftains who weretributary to Solomon, (2 chronicles 9:14) to the militarycommander of the Syrians, (1 kings 20:24) the Assyrians, (2kings 18:24; 23:8) the Chaldeans, (jeremiah 51:23) and theMedes. (jeremiah 51:38) Under the Persian viceroys, duringthe Babylonian captivity, the land of the Hebrews appears tohave been portioned out among "governors" (pachoth) inferiorin rank to the satraps, (ezra 8:30) like the other provinceswhich were under the dominion of the Persian king. (nehemiah2:7,9) It is impossible to determine the precise limits oftheir authority or the functions which they had to perform.It appears from (ezra 6:8) that these governors wereintrusted with the collection of the king s taxes; and from(nehemiah 5:18; 12:26) that they were supported by acontribution levied upon the people, which was technicallytermed "the bread of the governor" comp. (ezra 4:14) Theywere probably assisted in discharging their official dutiesby A council. (ezra 4:7; 6:6) The "governor" beyond the riverhad a judgment-seat beyond Jerusalem, from which probably headministered justice when making a progress through hisprovince. (nehemiah 3:7) At the time of Christ Judea was aRoman province, governed by a procurator (governor) appointedby Rome.