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Definition of Bottony
1. a. Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons.
Definition of Bottony
1. Adjective. (heraldry) Having a bud-like projection or a kind of trefoil at the end. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bottony
1. botone [adj] - See also: botone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bottony
Literary usage of Bottony
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notices and Documents Illustrative of the Literary History of Glasgow During by William James Duncan (1886)
"... and Anatomy* teach bottony yearly from the fifteenth day of May to the ...
is obliged to teach Anatomy as well as bottony, And ordains him to teach ..."
2. Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor (1886)
"... and the history of the argent and gules, over all a cross bottony conn ...
quartered with a cross bottony, and counterchanged; the whole scutcheon being ..."
3. Captain Richard Ingle, the Maryland "pirate and Rebel," 1642-1653: A Paper by Edward Ingle (1884)
"The bottony or budding cross depicted upon these arms was said to represent the
budding virtues of a youthful champion.1 The Crossland arms are generally ..."
4. The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal and Review edited by Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt, John Charles Cox, John Romilly Allen (1872)
"... a fess cheeky argent and yules, in chief three crosses bottony yules, Faversham ;
in palo with argent, three escallops yules, in chief azure three cross ..."
5. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great by John Woody Papworth (1874)
"... arc. three crosses bottony of the first. EATON, Ireland. ... Y. Or on a fess gu.
three crosses bottony arg. ..."
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