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Mot :: Mot (n.) A word; hence, a motto; a device..

Rede :: Rede (n.) A word or phrase; a motto; a proverb; a wise saw.

Banner :: Banner (n.) A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place..

Watchword :: Watchword (n.) A sentiment or motto; esp., one used as a rallying cry or a signal for action..

Mottoed :: Mottoed (a.) Bearing or having a motto; as, a mottoed coat or device..

Legend :: Legend (n.) An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration..

Motto :: Motto (n.) A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim..

Device :: Device (n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance..

Poesy :: Poesy (n.) A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a posy.

Escroll :: Escroll (n.) In modern heraldry, a similar ribbon on which the motto is inscribed..

Emblem :: Emblem (n.) A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation..

Acrostic :: Acrostic (n.) A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto..

Chronogram :: Chronogram (n.) An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs.- the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632..

Motto :: Motto (n.) A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievment..

Epigraph :: Epigraph (n.) A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto..

Posy :: Posy (n.) A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring..

Mottoes :: Mottoes (pl. ) of Mott.

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