Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PROC'TOR, n. [contracted from L. procurator, from procuro; pro and curo.]

1. In a general sense, one who is employed to manage the affairs of another. – Hooker.
2. Appropriately, a person employed to manage another's cause in a court of civil or ecclesiastical law, as in the court of admiralty, or in a spiritual court. – Swift.
3. The magistrate of a university. – Walter.