<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to approve, support, or sustain: to endorse a political candidate</li><li>to designate oneself as payee of (a check) by signing, usually on the reverse side of the instrument</li><li>to sign one's name on (a commercial document or other instrument)</li><li>to make over (a stated amount) to another as payee by one's endorsement</li><li>to write (something) on the back of a document, paper, etc.: to endorse instructions; to endorse one's signature</li><li>to acknowledge (payment) by placing one's signature on a bill, draft, etc.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Heraldry. a narrow pale, about one quarter the usual width and usually repeated several times</li></ul>