ENDORSE is the fourth of the pale, seldom borne but when a pale is between two of them. Pl. Iv., n. 4.

ENDORSED, two things placed back to back; as two lions, or two keys, endorsed. Pl. XL., n. 16.

ENFILED: when the head of a man, or beast, or any other charge, is placed on the blade of a sword, the sword is said to be enfiled with a head, &c.

ENGRAILED, a line of partition, by which ordinaries are diversified, composed of semicircles, the teeth or points of which enter the field. Pl. III. Also a bordure. See Pl. v., n. 10.

ENGROSSING-BLOCK, a tool made use of by the wirePl. xxiv., n. 14.

drawers.

ENHANCED, is when an ordinary is placed above its usual situation, which chiefly happens to the bend and its diminutives, viz., argent, three bendlets enhanced gules; name, Byron. Pl. xxxv., n. 29.

ENGOULÉE, A CROSS, a term for crosses, saltires, &c., when their extremities enter the mouths of lions, leopards, &c. Pl. xxxvii., n. 23.

EMMANCHÉ. See MANCHÉ.

ENSIGNED, signifies borne on or over, by way of ornament; as in the example, a man's heart gules, ensigned with a crown or. See Pl. XIII., n. 2.

ENTE signifies grafted or ingrafted. This term is used in blazoning the fourth grand quarter of his late Majesty's arms, viz., Brunswick and Lunenburgh impaled with Saxony ente-en-pointe, that is, grafted in point.

ENTOYER, for a bordure charged with dead or artificial things, to the number of eight. Pl. xxXVIII., n. 13. The most approved method is to say, argent, a border sable charged with eight plates, mentioning their number.

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ENTRAILED, A CROSS. Pl. xxxvii., n. 20. Leigh says, the colour need not be named, for it is always sable. Or, on a chevron, sable, a fleur-de-lis accompanied by two stags' heads caboshed, between three crosses, entrailed of the second; name, Carver. See Pl. XXXVII.,

n. 20.

ENURNEY, for a bordure charged with beasts. Pl. XXXVIII., n. 10. The same may be observed here as before to the term entoyer, viz., that the more intelligible blazon is, argent, a border gules, charged with eight lions passant of the first.

ENVELOPED. See ENWRAPPED.

ENWRAPPED, viz., a child's head couped below the shoulders, enwrapped about the neck with a snake: some say enveloped. Pl. xvIII., n. 21.

EPAULIER, a shoulder-plate of armour.

ERADICATED, a term for a tree or plant torn up by the root. Seo Pl. XIII., n. 22.

ERASED is when the head or limb of any creature is violently torn from the body, so that it appears jagged. Pl. viii., n. 17. Argent, a lion's head erased, gules; name, Govis. Note. When boars', bears', wolves', whales', and otters heads are erased close to the head, as the example, Pl. xxxviii., n. 4, it is termed erased close, to distinguish it from a head erased, as the boar's head, Pl. xxxviii., n. 5, which exhibits a portion of the neck. ERECT signifies anything upright or perpendicularly elevated, as Pl. x., n. 1.

ERMINE is black spots on a white field. Pl. II., n. 1. ERMINE, A CROSs, or four ermine-spots in cross. Pl. vi., n. 13.

ERMINES is white spots on a black field. Pl. II.

ERMINITES is the field white, and the spots black, with one red hair on each side.

ERMINOIS is the field gold, and the spots black. Pl. II., n. 3.

The French say, d'or semé d'hermines de sable.

ESCALLOP-SHELL was the pilgrims' ensign in their expeditions and pilgrimages to holy places: they were worn on their hoods and hats, and were of such a distinguishing character that Pope Alexander the Fourth, by a bull, forbade the use of them but to pilgrims who were truly noble. They are of frequent use in armoury. Pl. xxvII., n. 2. Sable an escallop-shell argent ; name, Travers.

ESCARBUNCLE, a precious stone, resembling a burning coal in its lustre and colour. The ancient heralds drew it as in the plate, to express those rays which issue from the centre, which is the stone. Pl. ví., n. 18.

ESCROL. See SCROLL.

ESCUTCHEON (the) represents the original shield, buckler, or target, used in war, on which, under every variety of shape, arms were formerly, and still are blazoned. When shields ceased to be employed, their form was still retained as the field on which coatarmour is depicted; but that form has varied considerably among different nations, at different periods, and even at the same time. The oldest heraldic escutcheons are termed Norman, on account of the shape generally used by that people. They resemble a Gothic arch reversed; the form of which became broader ir the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and has remained so to this day, when it is again the favourite shape. The escutcheons of maids, widows, and such as are born ladies, and are married to private gentle

men, are always in the form of a lozenge or diamond; which is supposed to refer to the spindle, as emblematic of virginity.

ESCUTCHEON OF PRETENCE is that escutcheon in which a man bears the coat of arms of his wife, being an heiress; it is placed in the centre of the man's coat, and thereby shows his pretensions to her lands, by his marriage, accrued to him and the heirs of his body. See Pl. xL., n. 4.

ESCUTCHEON, POINTS OF THE, see ante, p. 10, and Table I. ESPRIT, ST., CROSS OF. This cross is worn by the knights of that order in France. Pl. xxxvI., n. 22.

ESTOILE, or star, differs from the mullet by having six waved points; those of the mullet consisting of five plain points. Pl. vII., n. 2. Guillim says, if the number of points be more than six, the number must

be expressed.

EXPANDED, or EXPANSED. See DISPLAYED.

EYED is a term used in speaking of the spots resembling eyes in the peacock's tail.

EYES are borne in armoury: barry nebulé of six pieces, azure and argent on a chief of the second, three eyes gules; name, De la Hay, of Ireland.

FACE, a term used for FEss.

FALCHION, a kind of broad-sword. Pl. xxv., n. 10. See another, Pl. xxx., n. 17, termed an ancient English falchion.

FALCON, in heraldry, is usually represented with bells tied on his legs; when decorated with hood, bells, virols (or rings), and leashes, then in blazon he is said to be hooded, belled, jessed, and leashed, and the colours thereof must be named. Pl. ix., n. 20. Sable, a falcon with wings expanded or; name, Peché, of Sussex.

FAN. See WINNOWING BASKET.

FANG-TOOTH. See Pl. xxIx., n. 5. Azure, three fang teeth in fess or; name, Bathor.

FER DE FOURCHETTE, A CROSS; so termed, from its having at each end a forked iron, like that formerly used Pl. xxxvii., n. 18,

by soldiers to rest their muskets on.

FER DE MOLINE. See MILL-RIND.

FERMAILE, OF FERMEAU, signifies a buckle.

FESS POINT is the centre of the escutcheon. See Pl. I., letter E.

FESS, one of the honourable ordinaries, and contains a third of the field; some authors say it was a belt of honour, given as a reward by kings, &c., for services in the army. Pl. iv., n. 13.

FESS BRETESSED has the same indents as counter-embattled; but the example has both sides equal to each other. Pl. XL., n. 6. Or a fess bretessed gules; name, Crebott, of Sussex.

PER FESS is when the field or charge is equally divided by a horizontal line. Party per fess or and azure; name, Zusto, of Venice. Pl. III., n. 3.

PER FESS and PALE signifies the field to be divided into three parts by the fess line, and the pale line, from the fess point to the middle bass point. Pl. XXXVIII., n. 30.

FESSE TARGET, an ancient term for an escutcheon of pretence.

FESSELY, an ancient term for party per fess.

FESSWAYS, or FESSWISE, implies any charge placed or borne in fess, that is, in a horizontal line across the field, or if a crest, on the wreath.

FETLOCK, OF FETTERLOCK a horse fetlock. Pl. xxv.,