enurny

English

Alternative forms

• enurney (adjective only)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman enorné, enourné, variant forms of aurné, aourné, from aurner (“to adorn, decorate, endow”); compare anorn, enorn from the same nasal variants.

Adjective

enurny (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Charged with animals.
   • 1638, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie, page 32:

     He beareth Argent, a bordure quarterly, as followeth: The first Gules, enurny of three Lioncels passant guardant, Or. The second, Azure, verdoy, of as many Flowers de Lis, Or. The third as the fecond : The fourth as the first.

Noun

enurny

1. A bordure charged with animals; a charge or set of animals.
   • 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland: Forming an Extensive Ordinary of British Armorials; Upon an Entirely New Plan ..., page 988:

     YONGE, V. charged with an enurny of eight lions and Az. three griffins pass. in pale arg.

   • 1883, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, page 432:

     […] interlaced with an enurny of lions passant of the second.

See also

• enaluron

Anagrams

• yrunne