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.

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• 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  A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or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.
• 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.
• ORNAMENTALLY
  By way of ornament.
• 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.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• SWARTHINESS
  The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.
• 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.