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 EQU 56 ESC Equilateral-triangle, P, 43, f. 56. Equippe. Armed at all points. P. 36, f. 27. Equipped. Applied to a horse when furnished with all his trappings. Equire, Esquire, or Squire. Similar to the Gyron ; it is also termed Base Esquire. P. 21, f. 24, and f. 42. Equise. Same as Aiguise. Equites aurati ; Golden horsemen, i.e. Knights with golden spurs. Eradicated. Torn up by the roots. P. 45. f- 31. and f. S7' Erased, or Erazed. Torn off, having a jagged edge as a Lion's head erased. P. 26, f. 25 and 38. It also expresses the lower part of the neck when of a different colour from the rest. P. 28, f. 3. Observe if the head were per- fesse the partition line would be in the centre. Erect. Upright, as a boar's head erect and erased. P. 29, f. 33. Erect. Applied to wings w^hen ex- tending outwards. P. 32, f. 2. In- verted when downwards. P. 33, f. 7. Erected endorsed. Two things borne upright, back to back. P. 42, 1. 10. Erm. Contraction for Ermine. Ermeyn. See Ermine. Ermine. A little animal about the size of a squirrel, and borne by several families as their Crest. P. 30, f. 16. Ermine. A white fur with black tufts. P. I. Ermines; also a fur, being black, with white tufts, ib. Erminois. a fur of gold and black tufts, i.b. The opposite fur to this i.e. black with gold tufts is termed Pean ib. Erminetes, or Erminites. Another fur with black tuft, having a red hair on each side of it. Ermyn. Same as Ermine. Irne. An eagle. luiRANT. An old term for haurient. Escallop-shell. A badge much used by Pilgrims, and is a common bearing in Coat Armour. P. 42, f. 42. Escallopee, or Counter scallopee. Also termed Papellonne. P. 18, f. 7. P. 2, f. 22. EscARF. i.e. a scarf, or band. As a sheaf of arrows bound with an escarf. P. 37, f- 21. Escarbuncle. Is always depicted with eight points as P. 43, f. 57, if not named to the contrary. In the Arms of Phcrpowe is an escarbuncle of six points or rays, and iu those of Kuthfio one of twelve points. Sometimes blazoned an escarbuncle pomete and florety, or pomette and florette. The Carbuncles, or Escarbuncles, were orio;i. nally merely ornamental points of the shield. It is said from the Boss was developed the endless varieties of the Crosses which are abundant in armoury, and from the other streng-thening bands of the shield were derived the ordinaries of the armorial system. Escarpe. Same as Scarpe. Escarrcned. Same as chequy. EscARTELEE. When the straight line is cut off in the middle, with a perfect square, into an ordinary or partition, P.I. P. 21, f. 17. It is also a French term for quartered or quarterly. EsCARTELEE GRADY. P. 4, f. 23 and 34. EscARTELEE pointed, p. ig, f. 8. EscARTELLED, Cut, or notched in a square form ; a Pattee escartelle. P. 9, f. 8. EscARTELLED-couNTER, Or Doublc. The same as per bend, two piles triple pointed, bowed and counterposed, bend sinisterwise counterchanged. P. 19, f. 17. EscATTLE grady. Same as escartele grady, or embattled grady, P. 4, f. 34, EscHECQUE. Same as checquy. EscLATTE. A shiver, or splinter, any- thing violently broken off. P. 4, f. 7. EscALOPPE. See Escallopee. EscocHEON. See Escutcheon. EscROLL, Escrol, Scroll, or Slip. A ribbon, on which the motto is placed. P. 18, f. 21. EscuLAPius-ROD. A rod entwined by a snake, which was the form assumed by Esculapius the God of healing, when he was brought from Greece to Rome in a season of great sickness. P- 30, f- 57- Escutcheon, Escusson, Escocheon, or Escu. The shield with the arms painted on it, in opposition to the Ecu which was a shield without de- vice. The shield may be of any shape, but the oldest escutcheons are like a Gothic arch reversed, and are called the Roman or Heater shield. P. 8, f. 21. The surface of the escutcheon or shield is termed the Field, because it contains those marks of honour which were formerly ac- quired in the Field. These shields are of every imaginable shape, according to the fancy of the beai-er, the only restriction now being that Ladies must bear their Arms in a Lozenge. P. 9, f. 21 ; and L^ 22, f. 21. The Escutcheon has certain Fviats, distin-