| 单词 |
nowy |
| 释义 |
nowy, a. Her.|ˈnəʊɪ|
Also 6 -ey.
[ad. OF. noé (mod.F. noué), pa. pple. of noer, nouer:—L. nōdāre, f. nōdus knot.]
†1. = nowed a. Obs. rare—1.
1562Legh Armory 100 He beareth a Serpent nowey.
2. Having a small semicircular projection, esp. at the centre of a partition line, or (in a cross) at each of the points where the arms meet.
1562Legh Armory (1597) 35 Hee beareth Geules a Crosse nowye degraded fitche Argent. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xv. (Roxb.) 30/2 He beareth Azure, an Anchor reuersed, the Nutt (or Nowy) in the midle of the Beame or Arme. 1868Cussans Her. (1893) 48 The lines by which a shield is divided..may assume any of the following forms: Engrailed, Invected,..Nowy. Ibid. 62 The Cross Nowy has the angles formed by the conjunction of its limbs rounded outwards. All the varieties of the Cross may be Nowy or Quadrate.
b. nowy quadrate. (See quot. 1868.)
1868Cussans Her. (1893) 62 The Cross Quadrate, or Nowy-Quadrate, has its centre square, instead of round. 1894Parker's Gloss. Her., Cross, Nowy quadrate..is applied when the projections appear to form a square.
So ˈnowyed a., ‘a term applied to a projection not in the centre of a cross but in one of its branches’ (Cassell, 1886). |
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