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A countersign; a watchword.

The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; -- correlative to consignor. Consigner and consignee are used by merchants to express generally the shipper of merchandise, and the person to whom it is addressed, by bill of lading or otherwise. De Colange.

One who consigns. See Consignor.

enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.

; one of which he keeps in possession, one is kept by the shipper, and one is sent to the consignee of the goods. -- Bill of mortality, an official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time; also, a district required to be covered by such statement; as, a place within the bills of mo…

; as, to consign the body to the grave. At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state. Atterbury.

A consignee. [Obs.] Jenkins.

That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance. To increase your consignments of this valuable branch of national commerce. Burke.

One who consigns something to another; -- opposed to consignee. [Written also consigner.]

Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.

and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker. Story. Wharton. My fact…

A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed. Wharton.

hants for goods bought, or received on consignment; drafts on merchants for goods sold or consigned. McElrath.