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emblem

1. em.blem \'em-bl*m\ n [ME, fr. L emblema inlaid work, fr. Gk emble-mat-, 
   emble-m]a, fr. emballein to insert, fr. en- + ballein to throw - more at 
   DEVIL 1: a picture with a motto or set of verses intended as a moral lesson 
    2: an object or the figure of an object symbolizing and suggesting another 
    object or an idea 3a: a symbolic object used as a heraldic device  3b: a 
   device, symbol, or figure adopted and used as an identifying mark 
2. emblem vt : to represent by an emblem