person authorized by commission, letters patent, or other lawful warrant, to examine any matters, or execute any lawful commission.

Commissioner in the General Assembly of the church of Scotland. See General Assembly.

Commissioners of the Customs. See Customs.

Commissioners of Excise. See Excise.

Commissioners of the Navy. See Navy.

Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. See Treasury and Exchequer.

Commissure, Commissura, a term used by some authors, for the small meatus's or interstices of bodies; or the little clefts between the particles; especially when those particles are broadish and flat, and lie contiguous to one another, like thin plates or lamellae. See Pore. The word literally signifies a joining, or connecting of one thing to another.