Associations to the word «Emissary»

Wiktionary

EMISSARY, noun. An agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.
EMISSARY, noun. (anatomy) A venous channel in the skull.

Dictionary definition

EMISSARY, noun. Someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats