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• Government

  ·noun Management of the limbs or body. II. Government ·noun The right or power of governing; author...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• government

  n. a not unusual contraction of «Government service,» used by contractors and working men. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Self-government

  ·noun The act of governing one's self, or the state of being governed by one's self; self-control; s...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• government men

  n. an obsolete euphemistic namefor convicts, especially for assigned servants (q.v.). 1846. G. H. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• government stroke

  n. a lazy style of doingwork, explained in quotations. The phrase is not dead. 1856. W. W. Dobie, ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Government of God

  See Providence. ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• National Debt and Government Life Annuity Office

  On the east side of Old Jewry at No.19 (P.O. Directory). In Coleman Street Ward. First mention: O.S...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.