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saltire
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ordinary \Or"di*na*ry\, n.; pl. Ordinaries (-r[i^]z).
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(Law)
(Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.
(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.
(Am. Law) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
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The mass; the common run. [Obs.]
I see no more in you than in the ordinary Of nature's salework.
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That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution. [R.]
Spain had no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary.
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Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and other ordinaries.
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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.All the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style.
--Swift.He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries.
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(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. In ordinary.
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.
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(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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, an ordinary that resembles a St. Andrew's Cross on a shield or flag, consisting of a bend dexter and a bend sinister crossing each other, from Middle French saultoir, literally "stirrup," from Medieval Latin saltatorium, properly neuter of Latin saltatorius "pertaining to leaping," from salire "to leap" (see salient (adj.)). The connection between a stirrup and the diagonal cross is perhaps the two deltoid shapes that comprise the cross.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context heraldiccharge English) An ordinary (geometric design) in the shape of an X. It usually occupies the entire field in which it is placed. 2 The Saint Andrew's cross, the flag of Scotland
WordNet
n. a cross with diagonal bars of equal length [syn: St. Andrew's cross]
Wikipedia
A saltire is a heraldic symbol in the form of a diagonal cross, like the shape of the letter X in Roman type. The word comes from the Middle French sautoir (" stirrup"), possibly owing to the shape of the triangular areas in the design.
It appears in numerous flags, including those of Scotland and Jamaica, and other coats of arms and seals. A variant, also appearing on many past and present flags and symbols, is the Cross of Burgundy flag.
A warning sign in the shape of a saltire is also used to indicate the point at which a railway line intersects a road at a level crossing.
In Unicode, the cross is encoded at . See X mark#Unicode for similar symbols that might be more accessible.
Usage examples of "saltire".
The images never ceased to horrify and outrage him - the Saint would hang there, a limb painfully nailed to each bar on the Saltire cross he was crucified on, a cross-shaped like an X.
He spent days fashioning the expensive beams of oak into fifty saltire crosses.
Instead of the suffering saint, it was himself nailed to the saltire cross, him bleeding onto the heavy wooden beams, him feeling life ebb and flow from his wounds.
Confederate flag waved bravely over the Capitol, red canton with blue saltire cross and thirteen stars on a white ground.
Hrorik followed the Eastmarch standard, golden suns and a silver saltire on blue.
The murdered sentries had each had a saltire cross slashed across their brows, as by a hunting-knife.
Above the fireplace were rows of heraldic shields with the blazonings of the family and of its alliances, the fatal saltire cross breaking out on each of them.
A yellow ochre building with imitation battlements and a blue Saltire flag.
For the umpteenth time Georgina glanced round the dining room of the Saltire Hotel where she was booked under an assumed name.
Nat Morgan had a very interesting lunch meeting today, in the Atrium Restaurant, in the Saltire Court office block, in Edinburgh.
James Wilder, his secretary, with intimation that young Lord Saltire, ten years old, his only son and heir, was about to be committed to my charge.
These boys saw and heard nothing, so that it is certain that young Saltire did not pass out that way.
It was then that we ascertained that Lord Saltire had not been alone in his flight.
Here was the undersized saltire, the blue and white flag of Scotland, he had bought for his father when he had stopped off for a weekend in Edinburgh on his way home from Frankfurt, just last summer.
He glanced at the entrance to the resort, where the Union Jack and the Saltire of Scotland snapped in the summer breeze.