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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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Escocheon :: Escocheon (n.) Escutcheon.

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..

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..

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

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)..

Unsoutcheoned :: Unsoutcheoned (a.) Destitute of an escutcheon.

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

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..

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

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

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

Nombril :: Nombril (n.) A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon; -- called also navel point. See Escutcheon.

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

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