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

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

Field :: Field (n.) The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver)..

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)..

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..

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

Marshal :: Marshal (v. t.) To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement..

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

Couche :: Couche (v. t.) Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon..

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

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

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

Supporter :: Supporter (n.) A figure, sometimes of a man, but commonly of some animal, placed on either side of an escutcheon, and exterior to it. Usually, both supporters of an escutcheon are similar figures..

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..

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..

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..

Abatement :: Abatement (n.) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon.

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

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

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..

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