imbrued

English
The arms of Henry Williams (alias Cromwell) include three spear-heads argent, their points imbrued gules.

Etymology

From imbrue +‎ -ed.

Verb

imbrued

  1. simple past and past participle of imbrue

Adjective

imbrued (comparative more imbrued, superlative most imbrued)

  1. (obsolete) Stained with blood; wounded, bloody.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew, / After late chace of their embrewed game, / Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew [...].
    • 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:
      He had a sense of his mind, which had been made up, falling to pieces again; but that sense in turn lost itself in a shudder which was already familiar—the horror of the public reappearance, on his part, of the imbrued hands of his mother.
  2. (heraldry) Stained with blood.
    • 1895, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority, page 133:
      He bears for Arms : Argent, on a chief vert, two spear-heads erect of the field, the points imbrued gules.

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