Available Definitions:
1) n. - A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.
2) n. - The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses.
3) n. - In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.
4) v. t. - To put in the place of another; to substitute.