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To give the color of gules to.

ce, used poetically for a red color or that which is red. His sev'n-fold targe a field of gules did stain In which two swords he bore; his word, "Divide and reign." P. Fletcher. Follow thy drum; With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gules. Shak. Let's march to rest and set in gules, like suns. Beau. & Fl.…

See Aglet. Spenser.

Lawyerlike; legal. [R.] "Leguleian barbarism." De Quincey. -- n.

The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of leaf of grass.

Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.

Hoofed, or bearing hoofs; -- used only when these are of a tincture different from the body.

of Chaucer, the line is always broken by a cæsura in the middle, which is pointed by a virgule. Hallam.

by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).

Of or pertaining to gules; red. "Those fatal guly dragons." Milton.

ular icosahedron, one of the five regular polyhedrons, bounded by twenty equilateral triangules. Five triangules meet to form each solid angle of the polyhedron.

Tongued; having the tongue visible. Lions . . . represented as armed and langued gules. Cussans.

See Ligule.

Composed of ligules. Ligulate flower, a species of compound flower, the florets of which have their corollets flat, spreading out toward the end, with the base only tubular.

life of a nomad; to wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage. The Vogules nomadize chiefly about the Rivers Irtish, Obi, Kama, and Volga. W. Tooke.

rom St. Elmo, the patron saint of sailors. -- Saint George's cross (Her.), a Greek cross gules upon a field argent, the field being represented by a narrow fimbriation in the ensign, or union jack, of Great Britain. -- Saint George's ensign, a red cross on a white field with a union jack in the upper corner next the…