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Board :: Board (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc..

Commissary :: Commissary (n.) One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner..

Commissionship :: Commissionship (n.) The office of commissioner.

Red-handed :: Red-handed (a. / adv.) Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; -- said of a person taken in the act of homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he was taken red-hand or red-handed..

Depute :: Depute (v. t.) To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.

Striped :: Stripe (n.) The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer.

Legation :: Legation (n.) The sending forth or commissioning one person to act for another.

Cornetcy :: Cornetcy (n.) The commission or rank of a cornet.

Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission..

Factorage :: Factorage (n.) The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission..

Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc..

Send :: Send (v. t.) To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger..

Brevet :: Brevet (a.) Taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a brevet colonel; a brevet commission..

Mandate :: Mandate (n.) An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

Synodal :: Synodal (n.) A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration..

Commission :: Commission (n.) A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties..

Assignee :: Assignee (v.) In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors..

Receiptment :: Receiptment (n.) The receiving or harboring a felon knowingly, after the commission of a felony..

Subligation :: Sublieutenant (n.) An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank..

Abet :: Abet (v. t.) To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense..

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