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Heraldry vs Basilisk - What's the difference?

heraldry | basilisk |

As nouns the difference between heraldry and basilisk

is that heraldry is the profession or art of devising, granting and blazoning coats of arms, tracing genealogies and ruling on questions of protocol or rank while basilisk is a mythical (and heraldic) snake-like dragon type, reputed to be so venomous that its gaze was deadly.

As an adjective basilisk is

suggesting a basilisk : baleful, spellbinding.

heraldry

English

(wikipedia heraldry)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The profession or art of devising, granting and blazoning coats of arms, tracing genealogies and ruling on questions of protocol or rank.
    • Rouge Dragon Pursuivant is a specialist in heraldry at the College of Arms.
  • (countable) An armorial ensign along with its history and description.
  • (uncountable) Pageantry.
    • Onlookers were impressed by the rich and colorful heraldry .

    Related terms

    * herald * heraldic * heraldric

    basilisk

    English

    (wikipedia basilisk)

    Alternative forms

    * basilisc

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mythical (and heraldic) snake-like dragon type, reputed to be so venomous that its gaze was deadly.
    • The deadly look of the basilisk
  • (heraldiccharge) In heraldry, a type of dragon
  • A treedwelling type of lizard, of genus .
  • A type of large brass cannon.

    • Adjective

    (-) (rfv-sense)
  • suggesting a basilisk : baleful, spellbinding
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1870 , author= , title=The British drama: illustrated , volume=4 , url= , isbn= , page=997 , passage=Well, She is so basilisk ; there's no death in her eyes ...}}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1884 , author=M. L. O'Byrne , title=Ill-won Peerages, Or, An Unhallowed Union , chapter= , url= , isbn= , page=126 , passage=her gaze became more basilisk in its expression, and her countenance bore some similitude to that of a handsome fiend}}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , author=Witi Tame Ihimaera , title=Whanau II , chapter= , url= , isbn= , page=167 , passage=He had never seen her quite like this, so basilisk , so frightening}} ----