Indorse: Definition and part of speech

Indorse

  1. v. t. To give one’s name or support to; to sanction; to aid by approval; to approve; as, to indorse an opinion.
  2. v. t. To cover the back of; to load or burden.
  3. v. t. To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address.
  4. v. t. To write one’s name, alone or with other words, upon the back of (a paper), for the purpose of transferring it, or to secure the payment of a /ote, draft, or the like; to guarantee the payment, fulfillment, performance, or validity of, or to certify something upon the back of (a check, draft, writ, warrant of arrest, etc.).

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.

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