▪ I. ogress1
(ˈəʊgrɪs)
Also 8 hogress.
[a. F. ogresse, fem. of ogre: see -ess1.]
A female ogre.
| 1713 [see ogre]. 1789 Gibbon Autobiog. (1854) 6 Three Ogresses, or female cannibals. 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge ix, Like some fair ogress who had set a trap and was watching for a nibble from a plump young traveller. |
▪ II. ogress2 Her.
Also 8 aggress.
[Origin unknown: the sense is the same as in ogle n.2; but it is difficult to find a formal relation between them.]
A ‘roundel sable’, i.e. a black circular spot on a shield, supposed to represent a cannon-ball: called also a pellet.
| 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 37 b, Beareth Verte, fiue Fermaulxz in Crosse D'Or, a Border d'Argent, charged with eight Ogresses: or, after the French blazon, ‘Ogressèe de huit pieces’. 1678 Phillips (ed. 4), Ogresses [ed. 1706 or Agresses], certain round figures in Heraldry resembling Pellets, always of a black colour. 1690 Lond. Gaz. No. 2525/4 A Fesse Argent between Estoiles charged with 3 Ogresses. 1766 Porny Heraldry Dict. (1787), Ogress, term used by English Heralds only, to express the black Roundelets, which are also called Pellets and Gunstones. 1882 Cussans Her. (ed. 2) iv. 73 The Pellet, or Ogress. |