Hansard

1. n. A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse.
2. n. An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; — so called from the name of the publishers.

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.