Device

(de-vice'.) (From Fr. deviser, to invent.] (Paint.) An emblem or representation of anything, with a motto subjoined, or otherwise introduced.(Her.) Aname common to all figures, ciphers, characters, rebuses, mottoes, ., which by allusions to the names of persons, families, ., denote their qualities, nobility, or the like. 2L [s. 281]