Blazon

Webster's Dictionary ^[1]

(1): (n.) Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record.

(2): (v. t.) To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously; to publish or make public far and wide.

(3): (v. t.) To deck; to embellish; to adorn.

(4): (n.) An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings.

(5): (n.) The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner.

(6): (n.) A shield.

(7): (v. t.) To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon.

(8): (v. i.) To shine; to be conspicuous.

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, n. 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.