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To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.

te; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair. Upon this rub, the English embassadors thought fit to demur. Hayward.

To carry or demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner befor a prince. Pope.

Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; as, an ambassador with discretionary powers.

A small bassoon, formerly much used. Simmonds.

Ruin; death. This is the day of doom for Bassianus. Shak.

A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.

A tea party; a kettledrum. G. Eliot. Bass drum. See in the Vocabulary. -- Double drum. See under Double.

ent; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.

A bass instrument of the saxhorn family.

A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes.

as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word. Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador. Evelyn.

Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary.

l scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F #) is a tone intermediate between F and G. F clef, the bass clef. See under Clef.

A species of counterpoint with a drone bass.

A bassoon. See Fagotto.

The bassoon; -- so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot.

figured counterpoint or descant (although the term figured is more commonly applied to a bass with numerals written above or below to indicate the other notes of the harmony). -- Figurate numbers (Math.), numbers, or series of numbers, formed from any arithmetical progression in which the first term is a unit, and th…

To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.

Indicated or noted by figures. Figured bass. See Continued bass, under Continued.