To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
To tack, cruise about.
A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
A corset.
To exercise political authority; to run a government.
To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.
To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
To have or exercise a determining influence.
The act of governing