Words Like EMISSARY
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10 definitions of emissary
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An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter.
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Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.
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someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
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An agent sent on a mission to represent or advance the interests of another.
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Emitting; sending out; furnishing an outlet.
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Of or pertaining to one sent on a mission; exploring; spying.
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A person sent on a mission, particularly a private mission or business; an agent employed for the promotion of a cause or of his employer's interests: now commonly used in a bad or contemptuous sense, and usually implying some degree of secrecy or chicanery.
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An outlet for water; a channel by which water is drawn from a lake: as the emissary of the Alban lake.
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In anatomy, that which emits or sends out; a vessel through which excretion takes place; an excretory or emunctory: chiefly used in the plural. Also emissarium.