Obs. or Sc. [f. the sb.; cf. to pilot.] To act as agent in; to carry out as agent.
1637–62. Baillie, Lett. & Journ., I. 9. The Duke was carefully solicited to agent this weighty business.
1681. Lond. Gaz., mdcxlix/2. All Writers to the Signet … and other Persons employed in Writing or agenting.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xiii. (1829), 105. I’ll employ my ain man o’ business, Nichil Novit, to agent Effie’s plea.
