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Emblem

Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.

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Agnus Dei 76% connected

A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.

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Badge 76% connected

A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.

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Colophon 76% connected

An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book.

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Colors 76% connected

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Colours 76% connected

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Crest 76% connected

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthe…

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Cross 76% connected

A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below th…

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Cupid 76% connected

The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow.

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Device 76% connected

That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

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Donkey 76% connected

An ass; or (less frequently) a mule.

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Dove 76% connected

of Dive

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Eagle 76% connected

Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure…

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Elephant 76% connected

A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a…

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Ensign 76% connected

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 distinguish…

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Fasces 76% connected

A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.

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Flag 76% connected

To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.

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Heraldry 76% connected

The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling ca…

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Medallion 76% connected

A large medal or memorial coin.

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Totem 76% connected

A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan.

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Design 76% connected

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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Figure 76% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Pattern 76% connected

Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

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Symbol 76% connected

A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by resemblance or by convention; an emb…

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Symbolization 76% connected

The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation.

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Allegoric 74% connected

Alt. of Allegorical

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Allegoric 74% connected

Alt. of Allegorical

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Allegorize 74% connected

To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.

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Allegorize 74% connected

To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.

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Emblematic 74% connected

Alt. of Emblematical

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Emblematic 74% connected

Alt. of Emblematical

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Allegory 92% connected

A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances.…

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