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mercy seat that is over the testimony. Ex. xxx. 6. Over them gleamed far off the crimson banners of morning. Longfellow.

A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.

reareth our hearts from vain thoughts. Barrow. Mine [shall be] the first hand to rear her banner. Ld. Lytton.

Reflecting light; shining; glittering; glistening; bright; luminous; splendid. Gorgeous banners to the sun expand Their streaming volumes of relucent gold. Glover.

The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.)

neck; also, a cravat; a neckcloth. Put on your hood and scarf. Swift. With care about the banners, scarves, and staves. R. Browning.

nant was bound to do some special honorary service to the king in person, as to carry his banner, his sword, or the like. Tomlins. Cowell. Blackstone. -- Petit sergeanty. See under Petit.

A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard. Milton.

is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural. The Norweyan banners flout the sky. Shak.

A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign. His armies, in the following day, On those fair plains their standards proud display. Fairfax.

Spangled or studded with stars. Star-spangled banner, the popular name for the national ensign of the United States. F. S. Key.

pl. of Staff. "Banners, scarves and staves." R. Browning. Also (stavz),

The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.

To open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner.

A banner.

fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter. With banners and pennons wavering with the wind. Ld. Berners. Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers against dignities. Sir W. Scott.