Possible Definitions:
1. Proxy (n.) The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.
2. Proxy (n.) The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another.
3. Proxy (n.) A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.
4. Proxy (n.) The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.
5. Proxy (n.) See Procuration.
6. Proxy (v. i.) To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another.
