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To honor or reward with a medal. "Medaled by the king." Thackeray.

Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.

A small medal.

A person that is skilled or curious in medals; a collector of medals. Addison.

Of or pertaining to a medal, or to medals. "Our medallic history." Walpole.

A large medal or memorial coin.

The art of making and striking medals and coins. [Written also medallurgy.]

d with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.

A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy. Acclamation medals are those on which laudatory acclamations are recorded. Elmes.

An instrument by which a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed. Brande & C.

er means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals. The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger. W. Black.

icuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs. - the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632.

coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.

A species of medal or medallion of bronze, having a deep furrow on the contour or edge; -- supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors. R. S. Poole.

to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver; a mark added to an ancient coin or medal, to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an enemy.

should as soon expect to see a critique on the poesy of a ring as on the inscription of a medal. Addison.

; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consist of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it.

Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc. Decoration Day, a day, May 30, appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors, who fell in the…

An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc.

tured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits. To burn, or To hang, in effigy, to burn or to hang an image or picture of a person, as a token of public odium.