Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRES'I-DENT, n. [Fr. from L. præsidens.]

1. An officer elected or appointed to preside over a corporation, company or assembly of men, to keep order, manage their concerns or govern their proceedings; as, the president of a banking company; the president of a senate, &c.
2. An officer appointed or elected to govern a province or territory, or to administer the government of a nation. The president of the United States to the chief executive magistrate.
3. The chief officer of a college or university. – United States.
4. A tutelar power. Just Apollo, president of verse. – Waller. Vice-president, one who is second in authority to the president. The vice-president of the United States is president of the senate ex officio, and performs the duties of president is when the latter is removed or disabled.