Hypertext Webster Gateway: "blazoned"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Blazon \Bla"zon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blazoned}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Blazoning}.] [From blazon, n.; confused with 4th blaze:
cf. F. blasonner.]
1. To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously;
to publish or make public far and wide.

Thyself thou blazon'st. --Shak.

There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow.
--Trumbull.

To blazon his own worthless name. --Cowper.

2. To deck; to embellish; to adorn.

She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.
--Garth.

3. (Her.) To describe in proper terms (the figures of
heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings);
to emblazon.

The coat of, arms, which I am not herald enough to
blazon into English. --Addison.


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