Dictionary entry

Blazon (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.