ensigning

Verb

ensign (third-person singular simple present ensigns, present participle ensigning, simple past and past participle ensigned)

1. (obsolete) To 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,1610, Ben Jonson, The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2018
2. To distinguish by a mark or ornament.
3. To distinguish by an ornament, especially by a crown.
   • Any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.

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