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Subaltern :: Subaltern (n.) A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain..

Branch :: Branch (n.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters..

Commission :: Commission (n.) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere..

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court..

Accomplice :: Accomplice (n.) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory..

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..

Guide :: Guide (v. t.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics..

Rapeful :: Rapeful (a.) Given to the commission of rape.

Commissional :: Commissional (a.) Alt. of Commissionar.

Recorder :: Recorder (n.) The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court..

Destructiveness :: Destructiveness (n.) The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.

Pirate :: Pirate (n.) An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas..

Vacate :: Vacate (v. t.) To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of no authority or validity; as, to vacate a commission or a charter; to vacate proceedings in a cause..

Cadet :: Cadet (n.) A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission..

Manslaughter :: Manslaughter (n.) The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc/ or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger..

Sin :: Sin (n.) Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission..

Commissioning :: Commissioning (p. pr & vb. n.) of Commissio.

Lieutenancy :: Lieutenancy (n.) The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant..

Officer :: Officer (n.) Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer..

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

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