ENSIGN
\ˈɛnsa͡ɪn], \ˈɛnsaɪn], \ˈɛ_n_s_aɪ_n]\
Definitions of ENSIGN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice.
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Sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol.
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Formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment.
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A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army.
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To designate as by an ensign.
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To distinguish by a mark or ornament; esp. (Her.), by a crown; thus, any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.
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A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; - as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like.
By Oddity Software
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A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice.
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Sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol.
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Formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment.
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A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army.
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To designate as by an ensign.
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To distinguish by a mark or ornament; esp. (Her.), by a crown; thus, any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.
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A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; - as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The sign or flag distinguishing a nation or a regiment: formerly the junior subaltern rank of commissioned officers of the British infantry, so called from bearing the colors.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The flag, banner, or standard of a regiment or a nation; any signal to give notice; a mark of distinction, rank, or office: formerly a commissioned officer of the lowest rank in a company of infantry, the senior of whom carried the regimental colours. Naval ensign, a large banner hoisted on a staff, over the stern of a ship, or at the gaff, when the ship is under sail, for the purpose chiefly of distinguishing the nationality.
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To distinguish by some ornament or symbol.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The banner or flag of a regiment; the infantry officer who carries the flag of a regiment; a mark of rank or office; the national flag of a ship.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [French] The flag or banner which distinguishes a company of soldiers, or army, or vessel; a badge; a mark of distinction; emblem of power; — a signal to give notice and assemble; — a commissioned officer who carries the flag of Ensign, a regiment.
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