Word Meanings - EMBLAZONRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment. Thine ancient standard's rich emblazonry. Trench.
Related words: (words related to EMBLAZONRY)
- TRENCH-PLOW; TRENCH-PLOUGH
To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual. - TRENCHER
1. One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches. 2. A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use. 3. The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food. It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after - ORNAMENTAL
Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne. - STANDARD
The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend, - TRENCH
To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. Pope. No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Shak. 3. To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose - TRENCHANT
1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. " Trenchant was the blade." Chaucer. 2. Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit. - PICTURESQUISH
Somewhat picturesque. - TRENCHAND
Trenchant. Spenser. - HERALDICALLY
In an heraldic manner; according to the rules of heraldry. - TRENCHANTLY
In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely. - THINE
A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers. Note: In the old - TRENCHMORE
A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance. All the windows in the town dance new trenchmore. Beau. & Fl. - ANCIENTNESS
The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times. - ANCIENTLY
1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner. - HERALDIC
Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language. T. Warton. - STANDARD-WING
A curious paradise bird which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing. - ORNAMENTALLY
By way of ornament. - EMBLAZONRY
The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment. Thine ancient standard's rich emblazonry. Trench. - PICTURESQUE
Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, - STANDARDIZE
To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis. - DEDECORATION
Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey. - SWARTHINESS
The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - LABYRINTHINE
Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal. - ETHINE
Acetylene. - INTRENCHANT
Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak. - 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. - LENGTHINESS
The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity. - RHADAMANTHINE
Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment. - WEALTHINESS
The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence. - RETRENCH
To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions. Syn. -- To lesen; diminish; curtail; abridge. (more info) 1. To cut off; to pare away. Thy exuberant parts retrench. Denham. 2. To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench - WORTHINESS
The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth. Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see, and judge, and follow worthiness Donne. She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her - UNTRENCHED
Being without trenches; whole; intact.