Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Heraldry Designating an animal with only the upper part depicted.
- adjective Archaic Emerging.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Emerging: in heraldry, said of a beast of which only the upper half is seen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Her.) Issuing or coming up; -- a term used to express a charge or bearing rising or coming out of another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
issuing ,emerging - adjective heraldry, of an animal Having only the upper half depicted
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Examples
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Bring about it to be brought about and it will be, loke, our lake lemanted, that greyt lack, the citye of Is is issuant (atlanst!), urban and orbal, through seep froms umber under wasseres of Erie.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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On a chief, _Nebulæ_, ermine, one complete doctor, issuant, checkie, sustaining in his right hand a baton of the second.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler
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On the dexter and sinister sides, two demi-doctors, issuant of the second, and two cane heads, issuant of the third; the first having one eye, couchant, towards the dexter side of the escutcheon; the second faced, per pale, proper, and gules guardant.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler
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_ A fabulous eagle, always represented as issuant from flames.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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Marquis Montagu may have used, he certainly did use the Gryphon, issuant out of a ducal coronet, as this appears alone for his crest, on his garter plate, as a crest for Montagu, he having given the arms of that family precedence over his paternal coat of Nevile; the king - maker, likewise, upon his seal, gives the precedence to Montagu and
The Last of the Barons — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Northumberland, distinguished his own retainers, however, by the special request of the ancient Montagus. -- a Gryphon issuant from a ducal crown.
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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In his own country the king granted these honourable augmentations to his armorial ensign: a chief undulated, ARGENT: thereon waves of the sea; from which a palm tree issuant, between a disabled ship on the dexter, and a ruinous battery on the sinister all proper; and for his crest, on
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Robert Southey 1808
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We were constrained in the fourth quarter because of our work on the $500 million bond issuant.
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Normal earned premium amounted to $155 million in the quarter, down 13\% from the comparable prior year quarter primarily due to the reduced premiums written, runoff and accelerations of the portfolio due to re-fundings and the issuant guarantee transaction that took place late last year.
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Normal earned premium amounted to $155 million in the quarter, down 13\% from the comparable prior year quarter primarily due to the reduced premiums written, runoff and accelerations of the portfolio due to re-fundings and the issuant guarantee transaction that took place late last year.
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