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Oblique :: Oblique (a.) Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister..

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)..

Sinister :: Sinister (a.) Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance..

Sinister :: Sinister (a.) On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right..

Left-handed :: Left-handed (a.) Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment..

Leer :: Leer (n.) A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion..

Lozengy :: Lozengy (a.) Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister..

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..

Awk :: Awk (a.) Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end)..

Sinisterly :: Sinisterly (adv.) In a sinister manner.

Infaust :: Infaust (a.) Not favorable; unlucky; unpropitious; sinister.

Chief :: Chief (n.) The upper third part of the field. It is supposed to be composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs..

Purity :: Purity (n.) Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views.

Baton :: Baton (n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister..

Scarp :: Scarp (n.) A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter..

Bend :: Bend (n.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base..

Sinister-handed :: Sinister-handed (a.) Left-handed; hence, unlucky..

Saltirewise :: Saltirewise (adv.) In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center..

Dexter :: Dexter (a.) Pertaining to, or situated on, the right hand; right, as opposed to sinister, or left..

Decrescent :: Decrescent (n.) A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.

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