Administer

1. n. Administrator.
2. v. t. To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.
3. v. t. To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.
4. v. t. To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.
5. v. t. To tender, as an oath.
6. v. t. To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
7. v. i. To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.
8. v. i. To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.