2. The minutes, or rough draught, of an instrument or transaction.
3. (Diplomacy) (a) A preliminary document upon the basis of which negotiations are carried on. (b) A convention not formally ratified. (c) An agreement of diplomatists indicating the results reached by them at a particular stage of a negotiation.
PROTOCOL
Pro"to*col, v. t.
Defn: To make a protocol of.
PROTOCOL
Pro"to*col, v. i.
Defn: To make or write protocols, or first draughts; to issue protocols. Carlyle.
PROTOCOLIST
Pro"to*col`ist, n.
Defn: One who draughts protocols.
PROTOCONCH
Pro"to*conch, n. Etym: [Proto- + conch.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods.