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d figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.

To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement.

The arrangement of an escutcheon to exhibit the alliances of the owner. Marshaling of assets (Law), the arranging or ranking of assets in due order of administration.

ats, food made from milk, as butter and cheese. [Obs.] Bailey. -- Milk mirror. Same as Escutcheon, 2. -- Milk molar (Anat.), one of the deciduous molar teeth which are shed and replaced by the premolars. -- Milk of lime (Chem.), a watery emulsion of calcium hydrate, produced by macerating quicklime in water. -- Mil…

A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon; -- called also navel point. See Escutcheon.

mounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest. In orle, round the escutcheon, leaving the middle of the field vacant, or occupied by something else; -- said of bearings arranged on the shield in the form of an orle.

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.

A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.

In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.

Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.

Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.

One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon.

Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate.

ted in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base).

To arrange (different coats of arms) upon one escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both father and mother the right to bear arms.

One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.

The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon.

es, and Mars in the same degree of Gemini. -- Sinister base, Sinister chief. See under Escutcheon.

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.

t with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.