单词 | pheon |
释义 | pheonn. 1. Heraldry. A charge in the form of a broad barbed arrow or arrowhead, or of the head of a javelin; spec. one that is engrailed on the inner edge of each barb. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of weapons or armour > [noun] > arrow broad arrowhead1461 pheon1486 broad arrow1572 1486 Coote Armuris sig. bv, in Bk. St. Albans Feons be calde in armys brode arow hedys. 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 175 A Pheon Azure, whiche signifieth the hedd of a Darte. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iv. xiv. 228 The Pheon is the head of an Instrument of the Missile sort, which we call a Dart. 1665 W. Dugdale Visitation County of Yorke (1859) 58 Ermine, on a bend sable three pheons argent, in the sinister chief an escallop gules. 1789 W. Bentley Hist. Town & Parish Halifax 292 Arms below, Sharpe, which, to the best of our remembrance, were, Azure a pheon argent, within a border [etc.]. 1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry x. 54 Unless the contrary be specified, the point of the Pheon is blazoned to the base. 1895 Cent. Mag. Apr. 859/2 That consoling volume over which so many heads have been bent, searching for the ducal coronet, or garb, or pheon, or mullet, whereby scented note-paper might be ennobled and adorned. 1948 Mod. Lang. Notes 63 258 The heraldic pheon is nothing more nor less than the head of a dart. 1992 Coin Monthly Feb. 46/2 The last of the London halfpennies had a much smaller portrait, with marks of a pheon, a lis, or no mark at all. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > barbed spear crooka1500 partisan1542 pheona1618 harpoon1625 angon1683 jag-spear1864 a1618 J. Sylvester Iob Triumphant in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 947 Canst Thou his skin with barbed pheons pearce? a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 81 The keen broad pheon to his lungs did goe. 1846 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. Gloss. Pheon, a barbed javelin, carried by sergeants-at-arms in the king's presence as early as Richard I.'s time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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