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Gules :: Gules (n.) The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red..

Pale :: Pale (n.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it..

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..

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

Inescutcheon :: Inescutcheon (n.) A small escutcheon borne within a shield.

Point :: Point (n.) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon.

Essorant :: Essorant (a.) Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon..

Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm is called dexter, and the other side sinister..

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

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

Marshaling :: Marshaling (n.) The arrangement of an escutcheon to exhibit the alliances of the owner.

Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) A marking upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It is esteemed an index of milking qualities..

Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.

Tierce :: Tierce (a.) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point.

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

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

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

Party :: Party (v.) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale..

Escutcheoned :: Escutcheoned (a.) Having an escutcheon; furnished with a coat of arms or ensign.

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