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The rank or office of an ensign.

The state or rank of an ensign.

To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.

To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. Milton.

A signal consisting of a white flag with a black center, used by the United States Weather Bureau to indicate that a local frost is expected. It is used only in Florida and along the coasts of the Pacific and the Gulf Mexico.

stinguishing marks of authority, office, or honor; badges; tokens; decorations; as, the insignia of royalty or of an order.

The condition or quality of being insignificant; want of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases.

Insignificance.

Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words.

without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper.

Not expressing meaning; not significant.

A token, mark, or explanation. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting numbers having a code significance.

To assign wrongly.

My lord; -- an ecclesiastical dignity bestowed by the pope, entitling the bearer to social and domestic rank at the papal court. (Abbrev. Mgr.)

To seal; to confirm, as by a seal or stamp. [Obs.] Bradford.

To seal; to ratify. [Obs.] Barrow.

ut upbraid you in the shame and horror of a sad eternity, if you have not the spirit of obsignation. Jer. Taylor.

Ratifying; confirming by sealing. [Obs.] Samuel Ward (1643)

To consign beforehand; to make a previous consignment of.