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Were not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish.

Any annelid resembling Nereis, or of the family Lycoridæ or allied families.

A Nereid. See Nereid.

Fossil tracks of annelids.

A genus of gigantic seaweeds.

Good against venereal poison; antisyphilitic.

Decorated with a banner or banners "bannered host." Milton.

Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.

Diagonal. [Colloq.]

Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.

Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.

1 Having corners or angles.

A woman who divines. Dryden.

Having four corners or angles.

to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. Jer. Taylor. What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow. -- Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv.

A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.

Impolite; rude.

Having banners.

A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle.