nonce-wd. [f. ENSIGN sb. + -HOOD.] The state of being an ensign.
1842. Mrs. Gore, in Tait’s Mag., IX. 569/1. An appetite that rarely extends beyond the first fortnight of escape from cubhood to ensignhood.
nonce-wd. [f. ENSIGN sb. + -HOOD.] The state of being an ensign.
1842. Mrs. Gore, in Tait’s Mag., IX. 569/1. An appetite that rarely extends beyond the first fortnight of escape from cubhood to ensignhood.
