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Blazoning

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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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