Definition of fesse

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Fesse (n.) A band drawn horizontally across the center of an escutcheon, and containing in breadth the third part of it; one of the nine honorable ordinaries..

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Ordinary :: Ordinary (n.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary..
Ostensible :: Ostensible (a.) Shown; exhibited; declared; avowed; professed; apparent; -- often used as opposed to real or actual; as, an ostensible reason, motive, or aim..
Ostensibly :: Ostensibly (adv.) In an ostensible manner; avowedly; professedly; apparently.
Confessant :: Confessant (n.) One who confesses to a priest.
Servant :: Servant (n.) A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.
Confessed :: Confessed (imp. & p. p.) of Confes.
Confessedly :: Confessedly (adv.) By confession; without denial.
Water Doctor :: Water doctor () One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.
Backslide :: Backslide (v. i.) To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
Mohammedan :: Mohammedan (n.) A follower of Mohammed, the founder of Islamism; one who professes Mohammedanism or Islamism..
Creed :: Creed (v. t.) Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
Confesser :: Confesser (n.) One who makes a confession.
Confestly :: Confestly (adv.) See Cofessedly.
Mystic :: Mystic (n.) One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism..
Mysticism :: Mysticism (n.) The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained..
Approver :: Approver (n.) One who confesses a crime and accuses another. See 1st Approvement, 2..
Koran :: Koran (n.) The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran..
Profession :: Profession (v.) That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry..
Artist :: Artist (n.) One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.
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