'Blazon' definitions:
Definition of 'Blazon'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Thyself thou blazon'st. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow. --Trumbull. [1913 Webster]
- To blazon his own worthless name. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To deck; to embellish; to adorn. [1913 Webster]
- She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. --Garth. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Her.) To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon. [1913 Webster]
- The coat of, arms, which I am not herald enough to blazon into English. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blazon'
From: GCIDE
- Blazon \Bla"zon\, n. [OE. blason, blasoun, shield, fr. F. blason coat of arms, OF. shield, from the root of AS. bl[ae]se blaze, i. e., luster, splendor, MHG. blas torch See Blaze, n.]
- 1. A shield. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings. [1913 Webster]
- Their blazon o'er his towers displayed. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner. --Peacham. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record. [1913 Webster]
- Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company. --Collier. [1913 Webster]
- Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, Do give thee fivefold blazon. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blazon'
From: GCIDE
- Blazon \Bla"zon\, v. i. To shine; to be conspicuous. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'blazon'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- achievement,
- adorn,
- advertise,
- air,
- alerion,
- animal charge,
- announce,
- annulet,
- annunciate,
- argent,
- armorial bearings,
- armory,
- arms,
- array,
- azure,
- bandeau,
- bar,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- bearings,
- beautify,
- bedeck,
- bedizen,
- bend,
- bend sinister,
- billet,
- blare,
- blare forth,
- blaze,
- blaze abroad,
- blazon about,
- blazon forth,
- blazonry,
- bordure,
- brandish,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- broad arrow,
- broadcast,
- bruit about,
- cadency mark,
- canton,
- celebrate,
- chaplet,
- charge,
- chevron,
- chief,
- coat of arms,
- cockatrice,
- color,
- coronet,
- crescent,
- crest,
- cross,
- cross moline,
- crown,
- cry,
- cry out,
- dandify,
- dangle,
- daring,
- dash,
- deck,
- deck out,
- declaim,
- decorate,
- demonstrate,
- demonstration,
- device,
- difference,
- differencing,
- display,
- dizen,
- doll up,
- dramatics,
- dress,
- dress up,
- eagle,
- eclat,
- embellish,
- emblazon,
- embroider,
- enrich,
- ermine,
- ermines,
- erminites,
- erminois,
- escutcheon,
- etalage,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- falcon,
- false front,
- fanfaronade,
- fess,
- fess point,
- field,
- fig out,
- figure,
- file,
- fix up,
- flair,
- flanch,
- flash,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- fleur-de-lis,
- flourish,
- fret,
- fur,
- furbish,
- fusil,
- garland,
- garnish,
- grace,
- griffin,
- gules,
- gussy up,
- gyron,
- hatchment,
- helmet,
- herald,
- herald abroad,
- heraldic device,
- histrionics,
- hold up,
- honor point,
- impalement,
- impaling,
- inescutcheon,
- label,
- lion,
- lozenge,
- manifest,
- manifestation,
- mantling,
- marshaling,
- martlet,
- mascle,
- metal,
- motto,
- mullet,
- nombril point,
- octofoil,
- or,
- ordinary,
- orle,
- ornament,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- paint,
- pale,
- paly,
- parade,
- pean,
- pheon,
- prank,
- prank up,
- preen,
- prettify,
- primp,
- primp up,
- prink,
- prink up,
- proclaim,
- promulgate,
- publish,
- purpure,
- put forth,
- put forward,
- quarter,
- quartering,
- redecorate,
- redo,
- refurbish,
- rose,
- sable,
- saltire,
- scutcheon,
- set off,
- set out,
- sham,
- shield,
- shout,
- show,
- showing-off,
- smarten,
- smarten up,
- sound,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- sport,
- spread eagle,
- spruce up,
- staginess,
- subordinary,
- tenne,
- theatrics,
- thunder,
- thunder forth,
- tincture,
- titivate,
- torse,
- tressure,
- trick out,
- trick up,
- trim,
- trumpet,
- trumpet forth,
- unicorn,
- vair,
- vaunt,
- vert,
- wave,
- wreath,
- yale