See also:

• VANE (formerly spelt " fane," i.e. pennon, flag; cf. Ger. Feline, Du. vaan, Fr. girouette, Ital. banderuola, Ger. Wellerfahne)
• VANE, SIR HENRY (1589-1654)
• VANE, SIR HENRY (1613-1662)

VANE (formerly spelt " fane," i.e. pennon, See also:

• FLAG (or " FLAGGE," a common Teutonic word in this sense, but apparently first recorded in English)

flag; cf. Ger. Feline, Du. vaan, Fr. girouette, Ital. banderuola, Ger. Wellerfahne)  , the weathercock on a See also:

• STEEPLE (akin to " steep")

steeple . Vanes seem in See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early times to have been of various forms, as dragons, &c.; but in the Tudor See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period the favourite See also:

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

design was a beast or See also:

• BIRD

bird sitting on a slender See also:

• PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo, foot of a stall)

pedestal and carrying an upright See also:

• ROD (O.E. rodd, probably related to Norw. rudda, stick, rodda, stake)
• ROD, EDOUARD (1857-1910)

rod, on which a thin See also:

• PLATE

plate of See also:

• METAL
• METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)

metal is hung like a See also:

• FLAG (or " FLAGGE," a common Teutonic word in this sense, but apparently first recorded in English)

flag, ornamented in various ways .