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heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings. Their blazon o'er his towers displayed. Sir W. Scott.

One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald. Burke.

The act or blazoning; blazoning; emblazonment.

Same as Blazon, 3. The principles of blazonry. Peacham.

To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.

One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.

The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.

An emblazoning.

The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment. Thine ancient standard's rich emblazonry. Trench.

See Emblazon.

aving horns, beak, talons, etc; -- said of beasts and birds of prey. Armed at all points (Blazoning), completely incased in armor, sometimes described as armed cap-à-pie. Cussans. -- Armed en flute. (Naut.) See under Flute. -- Armed magnet, a magnet provided with an armature. -- Armed neutrality. See under Neutralit…

To blazon. [Obs.] Peacham.

s used alternately or counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure.

of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised.

urope that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace. Buckle.

The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.

To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon. [Archaic] The imperial ensign, . . . streaming to the wind, With gems and golden luster rich emblazed. Milton.

ional flag, a flag of a particular country, on which some national emblem or device, is emblazoned. -- Red flag, a flag of a red color, displayed as a signal of danger or token of defiance; the emblem of anarchists. -- To dip, the flag, to mlower it and quickly restore it to its place; -- done as a mark of respect.…

A roundlet of tincture sanguine, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture.

Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language. T. Warton.