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ce, 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 calle…

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

A small escutcheon borne within a shield.

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.

g, 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.

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

cal 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.

The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.

Escutcheon. [Obs.]

but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon.

A band drawn horizontally across the center of an escutcheon, and containing in breadth the third part of it; one of the nine honorable ordinaries. Fess point (Her.), the exact center of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon.