- a diplomatic agent.
- any accredited messenger or representative.
- a diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador.
- a short stanza concluding a poem in certain archaic metrical forms, as a ballade, and serving as a dedication, or a similar postscript to a prose composition.
- a diplomat of the second class, ranking between an ambassador and a minister resident
- an accredited messenger, agent, or representative
- a brief dedicatory or explanatory stanza concluding certain forms of poetry, notably ballades
- a postscript in other forms of verse or prose
