Word Meanings - ARMORIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family.

• Escutcheon
  The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon
• Escutcheoned
  Having an escutcheon; furnished with a coat of arms or ensign.
• Armor-bearer
  One who carries the armor or arms of another; an armiger.
• Heraldically
  In an heraldic manner; according to the rules of heraldry.
• ARMORBEARER
  One who carries the armor or arms of another; an armiger. Judg. ix. 54.
• ARMOREDCRUISER
  A man-of-war carrying a large coal supply, and more or less protected from the enemy's shot by iron or steel armor. There is no distinct and accepted classification distinguishing armored and protected cruisers from each other, except that the first hav
• ARMORICARMORICAN
  Of or pertaining to the northwestern part of France (formerly called Armorica, now Bretagne or Brittany), or to its people. -- n.
• ARMORPLATED
  Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad. This day will be launched . . . the first armor-plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain. Times (Dec. 29, 1860).
• Armor-plated
  Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad.

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