Word Meanings - PAVON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.

Related words: (words related to PAVON)

• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• LANCEOLATE; LANCEOLATED
  Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.
• LANCE
  A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell. (more info) 1. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a
• PENNONCEL; PENNONCELLE
  See PENCEL
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• LANCEOLAR
  Lanceolate.
• TRIANGULAR
  Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem. Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time. -- Triangular crab
• LANCER
  1. One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations. Wilhelm. 2. A lancet. 3. pl.
• KNIGHT BACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• LANCEGAY; LANCEGAYE
  A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II. Nares. In his hand a launcegay, A long sword by his side. Chaucer. (more info) same source as E. assagai, under the influence of F. lance lance. See
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• TRIANGULARES
  The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• KNIGHT-ERRANTRY
  The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme. The rigid guardian of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun. Young.
• KNIGHT TEMPLAR
  See 3
• LANCET
  An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace. Knight. Lancet arch , a pointed arch, of which the width, or span, is narrow compared with the height. -- Lancet architecture, a name given to a style of architecture, in which lancet arches
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• ATTACH
  tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack to fasten. Cf. Attack, and see 1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to
• LANCELY
  Like a lance. Sir P. Sidney.
• ENTERPARLANCE
  Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward.
• DEMILANCE
  A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• VALANCE
  p. pr. of avaler to go down, let down, descent ; but 1. Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor. Valance of Venice gold in needlework. Shak. 2. The drooping
• ELANCE
  To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart. While thy unerring hand elanced . . . a dart. Prior.
• OBLANCEOLATE
  Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• PETULANCE; PETULANCY
  The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor. "The petulancy of our words." B. Jonson. Like pride in some, and like petulance in others. Clarendon. The lowering eye, the petulance, the
• RENOVELANCE
  Renewal. Chaucer.
• REATTACHMENT
  The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
• EYEGLANCE
  A glance of eye.
• ALE-KNIGHT
  A pot companion.