(n.) A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.
(n.) A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae.
(n.) A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.
Example Sentences:
(1) And if he thinks he detects one lobbed in the guise of a question about his personal convictions, those black eyes petrify it mid-flight with a basilisk glower.
(2) But the west has become in their eyes, not a set of specific nations responsible for specific acts, but an almost mythical, all-encompassing monster, the modern version of the chimera or basilisk, the source of all manner of horror and dread.
Heraldic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since the first sections opened, the project has been heralded as a model example of urban redevelopment and the line has contributed to the gentrification of Manhattan’s Lower West Side.
(2) Kang Hyun-kyung writes for the Korea Times, not the Korean Herald.
(3) He may be the herald of a changing morality, and even more, his art may become an instrument for such change.
(4) It has been established that the structure of depressive phases in sluggish simple schizophrenia includes specific psychopathological signs heralding defect formation and united by the notion "transitory syndrome".
(5) Castin' makes me feel good: Ghostbusters' diverse team is a victory Read more Dan Aykroyd heralds Ghostbusters cast as 'most magnificent women in comedy' Read more “There’s three drafts of the old concept that exists,” said Aykroyd.
(6) Obama expressed a hope that the decision by Republican House speaker John Boehner to allow moderates in his party to vote with Democrats to end the shutdown may herald a new era of bi-partisan co-operation in the House of Representatives .
(7) Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart has reduced her stake in Fairfax Media, publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age newspapers, less than three weeks after she increased her investment in the group.
(8) Busulfan is not known to cause sideroblastic changes, so this was considered to herald a transformation into acute leukemia.
(9) The Audiant Bone Conductor has been heralded as an aid for use in conductive hearing loss; however, its possible use in unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) has also been proposed.
(10) Clinical presentation was most often heralded by symptoms and signs of hydrocephalus with focal neurological findings being a less prominent feature.
(11) The letters, bearing the prince's heraldic badge, were effective.
(12) If intraoperative stroke was heralded by permanent electroencephalographic changes, these were not related to the moment of cross-clamping.
(13) In Dublin, the general mood was summed up by the Evening Herald headline, referring to a slogan from an car advert featuring Henry: "It's Va Va Gloom".
(14) The Council of Mortgage Lenders, which devised the scheme with the HBF and the government, heralded the return of 95% deals, which it said would give a "welcome boost to housing market confidence".
(15) This has already been heralded as a “win” for the host nation and welcomed by the Australia’s Labor opposition.
(16) The transgenic rat therefore heralds an exciting new dimension in hypertension research.
(17) People can get bogged down in the process, because as you would expect is the normal way of events in these matters we take the legal advice, we act upon it, we mitigate the risks as best we can, but in the end the most important point here is the Australian public wants from their government a piece of legislation that will keep them safe as possible and that is what we are proposing.” The last cabinet discussion was the subject of an extraordinary leak to the Sydney Morning Herald , which showed ministers angry that the proposal had been sprung on them without a submission or documentation.
(18) News Limited is the Australian arm of the global company News Corporation and publishes more than 140 newspaper titles across the country including the major tabloid titles down the east coast, the Daily Telegraph, the Herald-Sun and the Courier-Mail as well as the national broadsheet the Australian.
(19) The former deputy editor of the Sunday Herald, David Milne, has been appointed online editor for the new site.
(20) The anticipated "big reveal" had been published in the New Zealand Herald several hours before the town hall extravaganza.