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Blazon


BLA'ZON, verb transitive bla'zn.

1. To explain, in proper terms, the figures on ensigns armorial.

2. To deck; to embellish; to adorn.

She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.

3. To display; to set to show; to celebrate by words or writing.

4. To blaze about; to make public far and wide.

5. To display; to exhibit conspicuously.

There pride sits blazon'd on th' unmeaning brow.

BLA'ZON, noun The art of drawing, describing or explaining coats of arms; perhaps a coat of arms, as used by the French.

1. Publication; show; celebration; pompous display, either by words or by other means.