Ensignname

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  A surname.

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  A hamlet in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada.

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  A minor city in Gray County, Kansas, United States, named after founder G. L. Ensign.

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  A township in Delta County, Michigan, United States.

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  The official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

ensignnoun/ˈɛn.sɪn/

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  A badge of office, rank, or power.

  • The Ensigns of our Power about we bear; / And every Land pays Tribute to the Fair.
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  The lowest grade of commissioned officer in the United States Navy, junior to a lieutenant junior grade.

  • The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
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  A flag or banner carried by military units; a standard or color/colour.

  • Hang up your ensigns, let your drums be still,
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  nauticaltransportThe principal flag or banner flown by a ship (usually at the stern) to indicate nationality.

  • But Alcibiades swiftly ran up the Athenian ensign on his flagship and bore down on that part of the Peloponnesian fleet which held the advantage and was pursuing the Athenians.
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  Any prominent flag or banner.

  • Ten thousand thousand ensigns high advanced.
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  historicalA junior commissioned officer in the 18th and 19th centuries whose duty was to carry the unit's ensign.

ensignverb/ˈɛn.sɪn/

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  obsoleteTo designate as by an ensign.

  • HENRY but ioyn’d the Roses, that ensign’d / Particular families, but this hath ioyn’d / The Rose and Thistle,
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  To distinguish by a mark or ornament.

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  governmentheraldryhobbiesTo distinguish by an ornament, especially by a crown.

  • Any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.