VANE (formerly spelt " fane," i.e. pennon, flag; cf. Ger. Feline, Du. vaan, Fr. girouette, Ital. banderuola, Ger. Wellerfahne)

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VANE (formerly spelt " fane," i.e. pennon, flag; cf. Ger. Feline, Du. vaan, Fr. girouette, Ital. banderuola, Ger. Wellerfahne) , the weathercock on a

steeple

STEEPLE (akin to " steep")

. Vanes seem in early times to have been of various forms, as dragons, &c.; but in the Tudor

period

PERIOD
PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round,
circuit
- CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)
, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

the favourite

design

DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to
mark
out)

was a beast or

bird

BIRD

sitting on a slender

pedestal

PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo, foot of a
stall
- STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors
)

and carrying an upright rod, on which a thin

plate

PLATE

of metal is hung like a flag, ornamented in various ways.

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