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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.

eats, 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. -- Mi…

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

rmounting 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.

Shield-shaped; scutiform; (Bot.) having the stem or support attached to the lower surface, instead of at the base or margin; -- said of a leaf or other organ. -- Pel"tate*ly, adv.

oöl.), the European bullfinch. -- Plum gouger (Zoöl.), a weevil, or curculio (Coccotorus scutellaris), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel. -- Plum weevil (Zoöl.), an American weevil which is very destructive to plum…

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

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

nted 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.

That which has power to disperse inflammatory or other tumors; a discutient; anything which aids the absorption of effused products. Coxe.

umber of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix.

To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.

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