Word Meanings - EMBLAZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Etym: 1. To adorn with glittering embellishments. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope. 2. To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon. The imperial ensign, . . . streaming
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Etym: 1. To adorn with glittering embellishments. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope. 2. To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon. The imperial ensign, . . . streaming to the wind, With gems and golden luster rich emblazed. Milton.
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- FATHER-LASHER
A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach. - ADORNINGLY
By adorning; decoratively. - ADORNATION
Adornment. - ENSIGNCY
The rank or office of an ensign. - EMBLAZONING
The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings. - IMPERIAL
L. imperialis, fr. imperium command, sovereignty, empire. See 1. Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict. The last That wore the imperial diadem of Rome. Shak. 2. Belonging to, or - STREAMLET
A small stream; a rivulet; a rill. - PAINTING
The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. 3. Color laid on; paint. Shak. 4. A depicting by words; vivid representation - PAINTER
A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten. (more info) panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. ; painteir a net, gin, - FATHERLESSNESS
The state of being without a father. - EMBLAZE
Etym: 1. To adorn with glittering embellishments. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope. 2. To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon. The imperial ensign, . . . streaming - STREAM WHEEL
A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel. - PAINTERSHIP
The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner. - PAINTED
Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty , a handsome American butterfly , having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup , any plant of an American genus of herbs in which the bracts are - FATHERLAND
One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors. - ADORNMENT
An adorning; an ornament; a decoration. - PAINT
pictum; cf. Gr. many-colored, Skr. pic to adorn. Cf. Depict, Picture, 1. To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30. 2. Fig.: To - FATHER
OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. pa protect. Papa, Paternal, Patriot, 1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad - FATHER-IN-LAW
The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law. Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law. - BLAZONRY
1. Same as Blazon, 3. The principles of blazonry. Peacham. 2. A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings. The blazonry of Argyle. Lord Dufferin. 3. Artistic representation or display. - ENSWEEP
To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - REPAINT
To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture. - UPSTREAM
Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current. - WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite. - OVERPAINT
To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh. - DISTREAM
To flow. Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone. - UNPAINT
To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting. Parnell.