(n.) That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving
authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or
obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something
which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument
investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from
loss or damage; commission; authority.
(n.) A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or
other thing.
(n.) A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to
make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to
the administration of justice.
(n.) An official certificate of appointment issued to an
officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer,
below.
(n.) That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty;
security.
(n.) That which attests or proves; a voucher.
(n.) Right; legality; allowance.
(n.) To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to
guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to
do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved
harmless, from any loss or damage by his action.
(n.) To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain;
to sanction; as, reason warrants it.
(n.) To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by
giving a warrant to.
(n.) To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure.
(n.) To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the
same; to indemnify against loss.
(n.) To secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of
the goods sold, as represented. See Warranty, n., 2.
(n.) To assure, as a thing sold, to the purchaser; that is, to
engage that the thing is what it appears, or is represented, to be,
which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by
it.
