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from The Century Dictionary.

See caboshed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

adjective (Her.) Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing.

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adjective heraldry Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing.

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French caboche head. Compare cabbage.

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H. A., with true lovers 'knots entwining these two letters; the arms of H.nry VIII and Anne impaled; while below in the same compartment is a bull's head caboched.

A Short Account of King's College Chapel Walter Poole Littlechild
Sable, a chevron between three bulls heads caboched ar - gent.

British remains; or, A collection of antiquities relating to the Britons: comprehending, I. A concise history of the lords marchers ... II. The arms of the ancient nobility and gentry of North-Wales. III. A letter of Dr. Lloyd, bishop of St. Asaph's concerning Jeffrey of Monmouth's History. IV. An ccount of the discovery of America, by the Welsh, more than 300 years before the voyage of Columbus. V. A celebrated poem of Taliesin, translated into Sapphic verse. The whole selected from original mss. and other authentic records. To which are also added, Memoirs of Edward Lhuyd, antiquary, transcribed from a manuscript in the museum, Oxford 1777

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