Definition of ensign

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Ensign (n.) A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice..

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Ensign :: Ensign (n.) A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice..
Oriflamme :: Oriflamme (n.) A standard or ensign, in battle..
Flag :: Flag (n.) A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag..
Gonfanon :: Gonfanon (n.) The ensign or standard in use by certain princes or states, such as the mediaeval republics of Italy, and in more recent times by the pope..
Streamer :: Streamer (n.) An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag..
Standard :: Standard (n.) A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign..
Escutcheoned :: Escutcheoned (a.) Having an escutcheon; furnished with a coat of arms or ensign.
Ancient :: Ancient (n.) An ensign or flag.
Ensignship :: Ensignship (n.) The state or rank of an ensign.
Midshipman :: Midshipman (n.) In the United States navy, the lowest grade of officers in line of promotion, being graduates of the Naval Academy awaiting promotion to the rank of ensign..
Curtain :: Curtain (n.) A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.
Tut :: Tut (n.) An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.
Pavilion :: Pavilion (n.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner..
Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch..
Mace :: Mace (n.) A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority..
Ensign :: Ensign (n.) 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 distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like..
Heraldry :: Heraldry (n.) The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies..
Ancient :: Ancient (n.) The bearer of a flag; an ensign.
Ensigncies :: Ensigncies (pl. ) of Ensignc.
Vexillary :: Vexillary () Of or pertaining to an ensign or standard.
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