vuln
verb/vʌln/
Etymology Irregularly derived from Latin vulnerāre.
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Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics Of a pelican, to wound (oneself) by biting at the breast.
- The shield depicts a pelican vulning herself.
- Of many other literary references to the pelican briefest mention can be now made . The variant relations of the piety of the bird are very interesting : according to one set of legends , it is to feed its young that the pelican vulns[…]1903, The Pelican Record, page 197:
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- To left a gold pelican in nest vulns itself to draw blood for its young . 0287.0 pen : A naked arm and hand from clouds on left holding an iron stilus ( pen ) pointing to an inscription : ' I Petri Cap . 2 Ve .1995, Peter Maurice Daly, Leslie T. Duer, Anthony Raspa, The English Emblem Tradition: Emblematic flag devices of the English Civil Wars 1642-1660:
- The pelican was my high school's mascot, taken from the crest of our school's founding family. The pelican is a Christ symbol, I had been told, because according to legend it vulns itself to feed its young. I saw a second pelican[…]2007 May 15, Mark Oppenheimer, Thirteen and a Day: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah Across America, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 103:
- ... no to rent rise " posters'.40 Other campaign posters featured a giant pelican - the symbol of Corpus Christi - feasting on a group of tiny human beings , with the tag line : ' The vampire pelican vulns its young to feed itself.2012 September 26, Mehdi Hasan, ED: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN: