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

Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised.

a boring univalve mollusk; a drill. -- Snail clover (Bot.), a cloverlike plant (Medicago scuttellata, also, M. Helix); -- so named from its pods, which resemble the shells of snails; -- called also snail trefoil, snail medic, and beehive. -- Snail flower (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Phaseolus Caracalla) having the kee…

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.

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

Having the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; -- said of certain birds.

Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.

overed with wartlike tubercles or spinose scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes. -- Wart spurge (Bot.), a kind of wartwort (Euphorbia Helioscopia).