† ensign-bearern.
Obsolete.
One who carried a company's ensign; = ensign n. 7.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > standard-bearer
gonfaneura1250
banneour1297
bannerer1387
standarda1425
banner-bearerc1440
standard-bearerc1453
stander bearerc1475
bannerman?a1500
gonfanonera1500
bannereta1513
pendant bearer1552
ancient-bearer1579
ensign1579
ensign-bearer1579
alferez1581
gonfalonier1586
guidon1591
abanderado1598
ancient1600
porte-guidon1656
vexillary1656
pennona1661
colour sergeant1813
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > ensign
handsenyie1545
ensign1579
ensign-bearer1579
1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 89 The ensigne bearer ought, when the warre is ended, to deliver up to hys captayne agayne hys Ensigne.
c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 82 Alexander Bog ansenzie bearer to Capten David Melvill.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend 72 An Ensigne-bearer..was slaine.
1672 T. Venn Exercise Foot in Mil. Observ. 177.
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n.1579- to den up
- to denounce to the horn
- to deny oneself
- to depart from
- to depart from life
- to depart from this life
- to depart one's way
- to depart out of this world
- to depart this life
- to depart to god
- to depart with
- to depone an oath
- to depone an oath serment
- to deprive a person of
- to deprive of
- to deraign battle
- to deraign combat
- to derive
- to descant it
- to descend into oneself
- to descend on the right side of the fence
- to descend within oneself
- to desert one's colours
- to desert the diet
- to deserve ill or well of