indorsement

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Superscription; a noting of the contents of any paper on its back; a docketing; briefing.
2. n. In law, an incidental or subsidiary writing upon the back of a paper, writing, or other document, to the contents of which it relates or pertains. A memorandum indorsed is more permanently and inseparably connected with the principal document than one made upon another paper and annexed.
3. n. More specifically In commercial law: The signature of the payee of a note, bill, or check, or that of a third person, written on the back of the note or bill in evidence of his transfer of it, or of his assuring its payment, or both. An indorsement may be: in full, mentioning the name of the person in whose favor the indorsement is made;
4. n. The transfer or assurance so manifested.
5. n. Ratification; sanction; approval.

Wiktionary

1. n. alternative spelling of endorsement.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other written instrument.
2. n. 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.
3. n. Sanction, support, or approval.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the act of endorsing
2. n. a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books)
3. n. formal and explicit approval
4. n. a signature that validates something
5. n. a speech seconding a motion