For Ordinary we have terms and definitions in 6 topics. The topics are Coffee, Genealogy, Heraldry, Hunting, Medieval Music and William Shakespeare.

Ordinary (Coffee)

Below average quality for growth, grade and type. Bland.

Ordinary (Genealogy)

Public house or tavern

Ordinary (Heraldry)

A charge or bearing of simple form. The ordinaries, or, as they are called by the majority of heraldic writers, honorable ordinaries, are nine in number as follows:
Chief, Cross, Pale, Saltire, Fesse, Pile, Chevron, Quarter, and Bend.
The honorable ordinaries are said to represent the clamps or fastenings of the shield, becoming ornamental from painting or gilding. Each has one or more diminutives.

Ordinary (Hunting)

With respect to tides, the use of this nontechnical word has, for the most part, been determined to be synonymous with mean. Thus, ordinary high (low) water is the equivalent of mean high (low) water. The use of ordinary in tidal terms is discouraged.

Ordinary (Medieval Music)

a liturgical genre is ordinary if its text is repeated from day to day. In the mass, the musical items of the ordinary are the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus dei; the Ite missa est and the Benedicamus Domino may also be considered ordinary. A number of different melodies are associated with each ordinary text, so while the text repeats, the music may change from one day to the next. A table of items from the mass is available.

Ordinary (William Shakespeare)

A tavern. (Julius Caesar)

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