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- 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.
- 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.
- Escutcheon - n. - That part of a vessel's stern on which her name is written.
- Escutcheon - n. - A thin metal plate or shield to protect wood, or for ornament, as the shield around a keyhole.
- Escutcheon - n. - The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.
- Escutcheoned - a. - Having an escutcheon; furnished with a coat of arms or ensign.
- Bearing - n. - Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
- Shield - n. - The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon.
- 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.
- Achievement - n. - An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.
- Palewise - adv. - In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.
- 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).
- Inescutcheon - n. - A small escutcheon borne within a shield.
- Lozenge - n. - A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.
- 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.
- Flanched - a. - Having flanches; -- said of an escutcheon with those bearings.
- Coward - a. - Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.
- Party - v. - Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.
- 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.
- 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.
- Marshaling - n. - The arrangement of an escutcheon to exhibit the alliances of the owner.
- 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.