dented

Etymology

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of dent

adj

  1. (heraldry) Having teeth of a specified colour.
    A lion rampant sable, langued and dented gules.
  2. (especially heraldry, obsolete) Indented.
    Ermyne on a chiefe dented, Gules. Nov 30 1572, John Bossewell, Workes of Armorie
    London, 116. John Farmary M. D. Dec. 1611. Ar. 5 roundels V. in saltier; a chief dented G. 1808, Sir Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books, with Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and Other Literary Antiquities, page 257

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