warrant

1. 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. Source: opted

2. n. A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing. Source: opted

3. 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. Source: opted

4. n. An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below. Source: opted

5. n. That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security. Source: opted

6. n. That which attests or proves; a voucher. Source: opted

7. n. Right; legality; allowance. Source: opted

8. 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. Source: opted

9. n. To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it. Source: opted

10. n. To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to. Source: opted

11. n. To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure. Source: opted

12. n. To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss. Source: opted

13. n. To secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of the goods sold, as represented. See Warranty, n., 2. Source: opted

14. 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. Source: opted

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