Definition of "signet" [sig•net]

• A seal, especially one used officially to mark documents. (noun)
• The impression made with such a seal. (noun)
• To mark or endorse with a signet. (verb-transitive)

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• "It is like gold, or more exactly it is like the gold-coloured semi-precious stone which one sometimes sees in signet rings, and which I think is called a chrysoberyl."
• "But the order of male succession was asserted by the friends of their country; the lawful heir drew the royal signet from the finger of his insensible or conscious father and the empire obeyed the master of the palace."
• "Stampt with my signet are the swarthy children of the sun:"