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ortion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

d, and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc. Ure. Dunglison.

Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.

l 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.

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

Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth. "Crestless yeomen." Shak.

er grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster. [Also written cutch.]

aving large teeth; thus, a fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.

The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.

Escutcheon. [Obs.]

ut with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon.

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. Fess point (Her.), the exact center of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon.

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).

Having flanches; -- said of an escutcheon with those bearings.

Bearing fruit; -- said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon. Cussans.

of the figures of the stag, hart, buck, or hind, when borne, in this position, upon an escutcheon. (b) In a position expressing sudden fear or surprise; -- a term used in stag hunting to describe the manner of a stag when he first hears the hounds and gazes round in apprehension of some hidden danger; hence, standing…

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. His sev'n-fold targe a field of gules did stain In which two swords he bore; his word, "Divide and reign." P. Fletcher. Follow thy drum; With man's blood pain…

orm having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite aide at the edge of the escutcheon. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two linea drawn from the fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner.

Covered with gyrons, or divided so as to form several gyrons; - - said of an escutcheon.

Honor court (Feudal Law), one held in an honor or seignory. -- Honor point. (Her.) See Escutcheon. -- Honors of war (Mil.), distinctions granted to a vanquished enemy, as of marching out from a camp or town armed, and with colors flying. -- Law, or Code, of honor, certain rules by which social intercourse is regulat…