[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ordinary \or"dinary\, n.; pl. ordinaries -ri^z.
   1. law
      a roman law an officer who has original jurisdiction
          in his own right, and not by deputation.
      b eng. law one who has immediate jurisdiction in
          matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also,
          a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to
          perform divine service for condemned criminals and
          assist in preparing them for death.
      c am. law a judicial officer, having generally the
          powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
          1913 webster

   2. the mass; the common run. obs.
      1913 webster

            i see no more in you than in the ordinary
            of nature's salework.                 --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. that which is so common, or continued, as to be considered
      a settled establishment or institution. r.
      1913 webster

            spain had no other wars save those which were grown
            into an ordinary.                     --bacon.
      1913 webster

   4. anything which is in ordinary or common use.
      1913 webster

            water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and
            other ordinaries.                     --sir w.
                                                  scott.
      1913 webster

   5. a dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for
      all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction
      from one where each dish is separately charged; a table
      d'h^ote; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a
      dining room. --shak.
      1913 webster

            all the odd words they have picked up in a
            coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as
            flowers of style.                     --swift.
      1913 webster

            he exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and
            peddlers and to ordinaries.           --bancroft.
      1913 webster

   6. her. a charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or
      ten which are in constant use. the bend, chevron,
      chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are
      uniformly admitted as ordinaries. some authorities include
      bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. see subordinary.
      1913 webster

   in ordinary.
      a in actual and constant service; statedly attending and
          serving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. an
          ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a
          foreign court.
      b naut. out of commission and laid up; -- said of a
          naval vessel.

   ordinary of the mass r. c. ch., the part of the mass
      which is the same every day; -- called also the canon of
      the mass.
      1913 webster
see also:
ordinaries bend chevron chief cross fesse 
pale saltire subordinary in ordinary ordinary of the mass 
canon of the mass 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

chevron \chev"ron\ she^v"ru^n, n. f., rafter, chevron,
   from ch'evre goat, of. chevre, fr. l. capra she-goat. see
   cheveril.
   1. her. one of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of
      two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing,
      respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the
      field and conjoined at its center.
      1913 webster

   2. mil. a distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the
      sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.
      1913 webster

   3. arch. a zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in
      norman architecture.
      1913 webster

   chevron bones anat., the v-shaped subvertebral arches
      which inclose the caudal blood vessels in some animals.
      1913 webster
see also:
cheveril chevron bones 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

chevron
     n 1: v-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service;
          "they earned their stripes in kuwait" syn: stripe, stripes,
           grade insignia
     2: an inverted v-shaped charge
see also:
stripe stripes grade insignia 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

156 moby thesaurus words for "chevron":
   hershey bar, l, achievement, alerion, angle, animal charge,
   annulet, apex, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms,
   aviation badge, azure, badge, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton,
   bearings, bend, bend sinister, bifurcation, bight, billet, blazon,
   blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, cant, canton,
   chaplet, charge, chicken, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, coin,
   corner, coronet, crank, crankiness, crescent, crest, crook,
   crookedness, cross, cross moline, crotchet, crown, deflection,
   device, difference, differencing, dogleg, eagle, elbow, ell,
   epaulet, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon,
   fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, flexuosity,
   fork, fret, fur, furcation, fusil, garland, griffin, gules, gyron,
   hairpin, hash mark, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device,
   honor point, hook, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, inflection,
   insignia of branch, knee, label, lion, lozenge, mantling,
   marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point,
   nook, oak leaf, octofoil, or, ordinary, organization insignia,
   orle, overseas bar, pale, paly, parachute badge, patch, pean,
   pheon, pip, point, purpure, quarter, quartering, quoin, rose,
   sable, saltire, scutcheon, service stripe, shield, shoulder patch,
   shoulder sleeve insignia, spread eagle, star, stripe,
   submarine badge, subordinary, swerve, switchback, tenne, tincture,
   torse, tressure, unicorn, vair, veer, vert, vertex, wreath, yale,
   zag, zig, zigzag, zigzaggery

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