Word Meanings - VEXILLARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A standard bearer. Tennyson.

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• 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,
• STANDARD-WING
  A curious paradise bird which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
• TENNYSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
• STANDARDIZE
  To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.
• STANDARD-BRED
  Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders.
• BEARER
  One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries. "Bearers of burdens." 2 Chron. ii. 18. "The bearer of unhappy news." Dryden. 2.
• 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.
• PALLBEARER
  One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
• UNDERBEARER
  One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall.
• TALEBEARER
  One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief. Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to inflame her resentment. Macaulay.
• FORBEARER
  One who forbears. Tusser.
• ARMOR-BEARER
  One who carries the armor or arms of another; an armiger. Judg. ix. 54.
• CUPBEARER
  One of the attendants of a prince or noble, permanently charged with the performance of this office for his master. "I was the king's cupbearer." Neh. i. 11. (more info) 1. One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an enterainment.
• PARALLEL STANDARDS
  Two or more metals coined without any attempt by the government to regulate their values.
• TRAINBEARER
  One who holds up a train, as of a robe.
• CROSS-BEARER
  A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
• TORCHBEARER
  One whose office it is to carry a torch.
• BELL BEARER
  A Brazilian leaf hopper , remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.