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Doubling :: Doubling (n.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.

Achievement :: Achievement (n.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.

Flanched :: Flanched (a.) Having flanches; -- said of an escutcheon with those bearings.

Dancette :: Dancette (a.) Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon..

Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) A thin metal plate or shield to protect wood, or for ornament, as the shield around a keyhole..

Palewise :: Palewise (adv.) In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise..

Quartter :: Quartter (v. t.) To arrange (different coats of arms) upon one escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both father and mother the right to bear arms..

Crestless :: Crestless (a.) Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth.

Purpure :: Purpure (n.) Purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base)..

Gyronny :: Gyronny (a.) Covered with gyrons, or divided so as to form several gyrons; -- said of an escutcheon..

Coward :: Coward (a.) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.

Couche :: Couche (v. t.) Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point..

Scutch :: Scutch (n.) A wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp.

Scutch :: Scutch (v. t.) To beat or whip; to drub.

Scutcheon :: Scutcheon (n.) An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield.

Amethyst :: Amethyst () A purple color in a nobleman's escutcheon, or coat of arms..

Portate :: Portate (a.) Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate..

Base :: Base (n.) The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.

Abyss :: Abyss (n.) The center of an escutcheon.

Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) That part of a vessel's stern on which her name is written.

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