Word Meanings - MEDALLION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A large medal or memorial coin. 2. A circular or oval tablet bearing a figure or figures represented in relief.

Related words: (words related to MEDALLION)

• CIRCULARLY
  In a circular manner.
• RELIEFLESS
  Destitute of relief; also, remediless.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• MEDAL PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• CIRCULARITY
  The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.
• MEMORIAL DAY
  A day, May 30, appointed for commemorating, by decorating their graves with flowers, by patriotic exercises, etc., the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War in the United States; Decoration Day. It is a legal holiday in most of the
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• MEDALET
  A small medal.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• RELIEF
  A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant. (more info) 1. The
• MEMORIALIZER
  One who petitions by a memorial. T. Hook.
• BEAR
  produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold
• BEAR'S-BREECH
  See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
• RELIEFFUL
  Giving relief.
• MEMORIALIZE
  To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature. T. Hook.
• BEAR'S-EAR
  A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf.
• BEARDLESSNESS
  The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
• BEARABLE
  Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.
• MEMORIALIST
  One who writes or signs a memorial.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
• ANT-BEAR
  An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
• GRAYBEARD
  An old man. Shak.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• MISBEAR
  To carry improperly; to carry wrongly; to misbehave. Chaucer.
• FORKBEARD
  A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard.
• PALLBEARER
  One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.