a word in the original Turkish, signifying "envoys," or officers to the number of five or six hundred in the grand signior's court, under the command of a chiaous bafchi. They frequently meet in the grand vizier's palace, that they may be in readiness to execute his orders, and carry his dispatches into all the provinces of the empire. The chiaous bafchi attends at the divan, and introduces those who have business there.