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See Catechu.

A hindoo hall of justice. Malcom.

, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm is called…

Having an escutcheon; furnished with a coat of arms or ensign. Young.

A small escutcheon borne within a shield.

tton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing. Scutching machine, a machine used to scutch cotton, silk, or flax; -- called also batting machine.

A kind of pasture grass (Cynodon Dactylon). See Bermuda grass: also Illustration in Appendix.

An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield. Bacon. The corpse lay in state, with all the pomp of scutcheons, wax lights, black hangings, and mutes. Macaulay.

Emblazoned on or as a shield. Scutcheoned panes in cloisters old. Lowell.

One who scutches.

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.