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Destitute of an escutcheon. [R.] Pollock.

A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon.

The center of an escutcheon.

An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment. Cussans.

A purple color in a nobleman's escutcheon, or coat of arms.

, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery. Coat armor, the escutcheon of a person or family, with its several charges and other furniture, as mantling, crest, supporters, motto, etc. -- Submarine, a water-tight dress or covering for a diver. See under Submarine.

Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family. Figures with armorial signs of race and birth. Wordsworth. Armorial bearings. See Arms, 4.

The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.

Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. A carriage covered with armorial bearings. Thackeray.

is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.

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

Blind buckler (Naut.), a solid buckler. -- Buckler mustard (Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields. -- Buckler thorn, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a buckler. See Christ's thorn. -- Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckl…

Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.

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

al 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.

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

A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humors; a discutient.

A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root. is nourished by the plant that supports it.