The verb comes from the Middle English blasoun, itself a derivative of the French blason meaning " shield ".

The crest rests on top of a helmet which itself rests on the most important part of the achievement: the shield.

Her head was covered with a gleaming helmet which was itself crowned with an olive-wreath ; she bore a shield and brandished a spear, simulating the goddess ' fighting role.

There have been stylistic changes, the main one being the Coat of Arm's mantling, the shape of the escutcheon ( shield ), the removal of the motto scroll, and also others more subtle within the Arms itself such as the mane and fur of the lion, the number of lines in the open book, and the colouration.

In the Iliad, the rich iconography of Achilles ' shield, which was fashioned by Hephaestus, is enclosed, as the world itself was believed to be, by Oceanus:

Toward the end of his term McNamara also opposed an anti-ballistic missile ( ABM ) system proposed for installation in the U. S. in defense against Soviet missiles, arguing the $ 40 billion " in itself is not the problem ; the penetrability of the proposed shield is the problem.

If the bubble-instigating party is itself a lending institution, it can combine its knowledge of its borrowers ’ leveraging positions with publicly available information on their stock holdings, and strategically shield or expose them to default.

However, the duty to rescue where it exists may itself imply a shield from liability ; for example, under the German law of " Unterlassene Hilfeleistung " ( an offense not to provide first aid when necessary ), a citizen is obliged to provide first aid when necessary and is immune from prosecution if assistance given in good faith turns out to be harmful.

More importantly, If the pilum struck the shield of an enemy it would embed itself into the shield's fabric, and this along with the bending of the shank would cause the shield to become unwieldy, forcing the enemy to discard it or waste time trying to pull it out.

When fighting, it uses its abilities to shield itself or throw opponents to compensate for its lack of speed.

The attack, which became known as the Battle of Endor, involved General Han Solo leading a strike team on the moon's surface to destroy the Death Star's energy shield generator, while Ackbar and General Lando Calrissian led a space battle against the Death Star II itself.

The descent module immediately righted itself once the service module was gone, with the heat shield forward to take the brunt of re-entry.

Heteroptera itself is a group of 25, 000 species of relatively large bugs, including the shield bugs, seed bugs, assassin bugs, flower bugs, sweetpotato bugs and the water bugs ( see below ).

In the Rennzeug, the shield was attached to the armour with a mechanism of springs and would detach itself upon contact.

Unlike other Australian states ' arms, the Northern Territory's arms incorporate many reflections of the indigenous Australian culture and history: the shield itself is a representation of an Aboriginal painting and the crest shows the Wedge-tailed eagle on top of a tjurunga, an Aboriginal ritual stone.

The bird is a turul and the shield itself the Arpad stripes of ancient Hungary.

If napalm can be poured through a hole in a tank's shield ( sometimes a napalm shell itself will do this ) the shield will hold the napalm in next to the affected tank causing the maximum amount of damage for the napalm shot.

The Mount Bachelor volcanic chain, southeast of South Sister, consists of Mount Bachelor itself and a series of cinder cones, lava flows and three shield volcanoes.

The only known exceptions are adamantium itself and Captain America's shield, which is made out of an iron-vibranium alloy.

A helmet showing that New Jersey governs itself accordingly and three plows on a shield referring to the State's agriculture tradition, giving it the nickname " Garden State ".

In use, the shield was inched forward as the working face was excavated, while behind it a permanent tunnel lining of cast iron segments was fitted into place, itself an important innovation.

The shield itself was in four quarters.

The reverse represents Pallas holding a spear in one hand and a shield in the other, and before her stands an eagle on a thunderbolt.

His tombstone represents him in armor, holding a shield with three cooking pots, marmites, on it.

It represents a crowned rampant golden lion on a dark red background with the shape of a shield.

The adornment above the shield, a stone wall, represents the perpetuity.

The shield in the center represents the pride of the people.

The combinations of the four colors of the shield represents the colors of the flag of the states of the FMS ( in the same way the flag of the FMS represents the states )

The floral wreath, surrounding the shield, represents the floral designs used in traditional Mughal art and emphasizes the cultural heritage of Pakistan.

* A white cross divides the shield into quarters, and represents devotion and faith.

In the background of the oval shield is the mountain Chimborazo, while the river originating from its base represents the Guayas.

The Fasces below the shield represents the republican dignity.

: The shield represents the natural resources and beauty of the varied Alberta landscape: the Rocky Mountains and their foothills, the grass prairies, and the cultivated wheat fields.

The wavy lines on the shield are representative of Lake Chad, and the sun rising over it represents a new beginning.

The white triangle inscribed within the shield with the letters KKK at the corners represents the part played by The city in the organization of the Katipunan.

On the shield, the book represents learning and education, the cross, religion.

In Star Fox, the Arwing has a certain amount of shield energy that represents how much damage can be absorbed before the destruction of the craft.

The lower part of the shield represents Yukon's mountains, with the gold disks ( called " bezants ," a medieval gold coin ) representing the territory's mineral resources and its birth in the Klondike Gold Rush.

On the shield, the rising sun represents Nyasaland, the lion Southern Rhodesia, and the black and white wavy lines Northern Rhodesia.

The shield is designed in a way that both represents the two towers of city hall and, as seen in the image in the right margin, the capital letter T. The three wavy streams beneath the shield represent the three rivers of Toronto: the Humber, the Don and the Rouge.

* The eight-pointed shield represents the original badge of a Dragoon as does the color.

The earliest known blazon from this period states that the arms of Finland represents A crowned lion of gold holding a sword in the right forepaw and trampling with both hindpaws on a Russian sabre ( ryssesabel ), surrounded by nine silver roses in a red field, over the shield a golden crown with a red cap.

At the highest point of the shield, a lily surrounded by thorns represents the Immaculate Conception by Mary.

The white upper third of the shield represents the polar ice pack and is crossed by a wavy blue line symbolizing the Northwest Passage.