nowy, a. Her.
(ˈnəʊɪ)
Also 6 -ey.
[ad. OF. noé (mod.F. noué), pa. pple. of noer, nouer:—L. nōdāre, f. nōdus knot.]
† 1. = nowed a. Obs. rare—1.
| 1562 Legh Armory 100 He beareth a Serpent nowey. |
2. Having a small semicircular projection, esp. at the centre of a partition line, or (in a cross) at each of the points where the arms meet.
| 1562 Legh Armory (1597) 35 Hee beareth Geules a Crosse nowye degraded fitche Argent. 1688 Holme Armoury iii. xv. (Roxb.) 30/2 He beareth Azure, an Anchor reuersed, the Nutt (or Nowy) in the midle of the Beame or Arme. 1868 Cussans Her. (1893) 48 The lines by which a shield is divided..may assume any of the following forms: Engrailed, Invected,..Nowy. Ibid. 62 The Cross Nowy has the angles formed by the conjunction of its limbs rounded outwards. All the varieties of the Cross may be Nowy or Quadrate. |
b. nowy quadrate. (See quot. 1868.)
| 1868 Cussans Her. (1893) 62 The Cross Quadrate, or Nowy-Quadrate, has its centre square, instead of round. 1894 Parker's Gloss. Her., Cross, Nowy quadrate..is applied when the projections appear to form a square. |
So ˈnowyed a., ‘a term applied to a projection not in the centre of a cross but in one of its branches’ (Cassell, 1886).