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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..

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

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

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

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

Passant :: Passant (v. i.) Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised..

Bearing :: Bearing (n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.

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

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

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

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..

Armorial :: Armorial (a.) Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family..

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

Counter-paly :: Counter-paly (a.) Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure..

Lozenge :: Lozenge (n.) A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.

Scutcheon :: Scutcheon (n.) A small plate of metal, as the shield around a keyhole. See Escutcheon, 4..

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..

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.

Shield :: Shield (n.) The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon.

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

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