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The ensigns armorial of a family, consisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction, and descending from father to son.

o of India (Bos, or Bubalus, arni), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns.

about; on another side of; as, to travel around the country; a house standing around the corner. [Colloq. U. S.]

Placed in such a position as to exhibit the top and two sides, the corner being in front; -- said of a rectangular form. Encyc. Brit. Cussans.

To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind. Pharaoh . . . arrayed him in vestures of fine linen. Gen. xli. In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed. Trumbull.

An approach. [Obs.] The house has a corner arrival. H. Walpole.

Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry. Spenser.

A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil. Ecclus. xxiv. 15.

meet purposely with the view of mastering, as an obstacle, difficulty, or the like. The thorny wilds the woodmen fierce assail. Pope.

s, to assault a reputation or an administration. Before the gates, the cries of babes newborn, . . . Assault his ears. Dryden.

The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur.

art; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.

surrounding or pervading influence or condition. The chillest of social atmospheres. Hawthorne.

-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race. Lowell. He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful. Froude.

tracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.

To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments. Finely attired in a robe of white. Shak. With the linen miter shall he be attired. Lev. xvi. 4.

Attire; adornment.

To adorn with trapping; to array. [Obs.] Shall your horse be attrapped . . . more richly Holland.

Rubbed; worn by friction. Milton.

The state of being worn. Johnson.