Elephants indorsed with towers.
Milton.
2. To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a
direction, heading, memorandum, or address.
3. (Law & Com.) To write one's name, alone or with other words, upon
the back of (a paper), for the purpose of transferring it, or to secure
the payment of a note, draft, or the like; to guarantee the payment,
fulfillment, performance, or validity of, or to certify something upon
the back of (a check, draft, writ, warrant of arrest, etc.).
4. To give one's name or support to; to sanction; to aid by approval;
to approve; as, to indorse an opinion.
To indorse in blank, to write one's name on the back of a note or bill,
leaving a blank to be filled by the holder.
In*dorsed" (?), a. (Her.) See Addorsed.
In`dor*see" (?), n. The person to whom a note or bill is indorsed, or
assigned by indorsement.
In*dorse"ment (?), n. [From Indorse; cf. Endorsement.] [Written also
endorsement.]
1. The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other written
instrument.
2. That which is written on the back of a note, bill, or other paper,
as a name, an order for, or a receipt of, payment, or the return of an
officer, etc.; a writing, usually upon the back, but sometimes on the
face, of a negotiable instrument, by which the property therein is
assigned and transferred. Story. Byles. Burrill.
3. Sanction, support, or approval; as, the indorsement of a rumor, an
opinion, a course, conduct.
Blank indorsement. See under Blank.
{ In*dors"er (?), In*dors"or (?), } n. The person who indorses.
[Written also endorser.]
In*dow" (?), v. t. See Endow.
In*dow"ment (?), n. See Endowment.
In*dox"yl (?), n. [Indigo + hydroxyl.] (Chem.) A nitrogenous substance,
C8H7NO, isomeric with oxindol, obtained as an oily liquid.
In`dox*yl"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to, or producing,
indoxyl; as, indoxylic acid.
In"draught` (?), n. 1. An opening from the sea into the land; an inlet.
[Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.