bend sinister : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bend sinister	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for bend sinister
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bend sinister n a mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left Synonym(s): bar sinister, bend sinister
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bend \Bend\, n. [AS. bend. See {Band}, and cf. the preceding noun.] 1. A band. [Obs.] --Spenser. 2. [OF. bende, bande, F. bande. See {Band}.] (Her.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base. {Bend sinister} (Her.), an honorable ordinary drawn from the sinister chief to the dexter base.