To manage or regulate the business or affairs of; be in charge of, To supervise the performance of, To show or indicate the way for, adjective_ Having no intervening persons, conditions, or agencies; immediate, Being of unbroken descent; lineal, noun_ (Mus) A character, thus [?], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation, In musicalnotation, the sign placed at the end of a staff or of a page to indicate to the performer the position of the first note of the next staff or page