chevron

chevron
    n 1: V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service;
         "they earned their stripes in Kuwait" [syn: {chevron},
         {stripe}, {stripes}, {grade insignia}]
    2: an inverted V-shaped charge
    

Ordinary \Or"di*na*ry\, n.; pl. {Ordinaries} (-r[i^]z).
   1. (Law)
      (a) (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction
          in his own right, and not by deputation.
      (b) (Eng. Law) One who has immediate jurisdiction in
          matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also,
          a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to
          perform divine service for condemned criminals and
          assist in preparing them for death.
      (c) (Am. Law) A judicial officer, having generally the
          powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
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   2. The mass; the common run. [Obs.]
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            I see no more in you than in the ordinary
            Of nature's salework.                 --Shak.
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   3. That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered
      a settled establishment or institution. [R.]
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            Spain had no other wars save those which were grown
            into an ordinary.                     --Bacon.
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   4. Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
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            Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and
            other ordinaries.                     --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   5. A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for
      all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction
      from one where each dish is separately charged; a table
      d'h[^o]te; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a
      dining room. --Shak.
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            All the odd words they have picked up in a
            coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as
            flowers of style.                     --Swift.
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            He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and
            peddlers and to ordinaries.           --Bancroft.
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   6. (Her.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or
      ten which are in constant use. The {bend}, {chevron},
      {chief}, {cross}, {fesse}, {pale}, and {saltire} are
      uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include
      bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See {Subordinary}.
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   {In ordinary}.
      (a) In actual and constant service; statedly attending and
          serving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An
          ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a
          foreign court.
      (b) (Naut.) Out of commission and laid up; -- said of a
          naval vessel.

   {Ordinary of the Mass} (R. C. Ch.), the part of the Mass
      which is the same every day; -- called also the {canon of
      the Mass}.
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Chevron \Chev"ron\ (sh[e^]v"r[u^]n), n. [F., rafter, chevron,
   from ch['e]vre goat, OF. chevre, fr. L. capra she-goat. See
   {Cheveril}.]
   1. (Her.) One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of
      two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing,
      respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the
      field and conjoined at its center.
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   2. (Mil.) A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the
      sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.
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   3. (Arch.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in
      Norman architecture.
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   {Chevron bones} (Anat.), The V-shaped subvertebral arches
      which inclose the caudal blood vessels in some animals.
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156 Moby Thesaurus words for "chevron":
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      annulet, apex, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms,
      aviation badge, azure, badge, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton,
      bearings, bend, bend sinister, bifurcation, bight, billet, blazon,
      blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, cant, canton,
      chaplet, charge, chicken, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, coin,
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      crookedness, cross, cross moline, crotchet, crown, deflection,
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      hairpin, hash mark, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device,
      honor point, hook, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, inflection,
      insignia of branch, knee, label, lion, lozenge, mantling,
      marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point,
      nook, oak leaf, octofoil, or, ordinary, organization insignia,
      orle, overseas bar, pale, paly, parachute badge, patch, pean,
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      sable, saltire, scutcheon, service stripe, shield, shoulder patch,
      shoulder sleeve insignia, spread eagle, star, stripe,
      submarine badge, subordinary, swerve, switchback, tenne, tincture,
      torse, tressure, unicorn, vair, veer, vert, vertex, wreath, yale,
      zag, zig, zigzag, zigzaggery