Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . exempted from the gen-eral rule, being, according to some Heralds, not laidon the shield, but coiisti, or sewed to it. Everything contained in the tield of an escutcheonis called ii c/uirf/e. Charges !ire divided by Heraldsinto the three classes of honoridile ordinaries, subor-dinaries, and common charges. Under the name ofordinaries or honorable ordinaries are included cer- tive is the liar, containing the fifth part of the liehl;and there are also the di/uft, one-half of the l)ar, undthe harrukt, one-half of the closet, th
Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . exempted from the gen-eral rule, being, according to some Heralds, not laidon the shield, but coiisti, or sewed to it. Everything contained in the tield of an escutcheonis called ii c/uirf/e. Charges !ire divided by Heraldsinto the three classes of honoridile ordinaries, subor-dinaries, and common charges. Under the name ofordinaries or honorable ordinaries are included cer- tive is the liar, containing the fifth part of the liehl;and there are also the di/uft, one-half of the l)ar, undthe harrukt, one-half of the closet, the latter seldomborne singly. 0. The r/uvron (Fig. H), composed oftwo strips clescending from the center of the shieldin diiigonal dirccliims like the rafli-rs of a roof. Itsdiminutives (ire the /?/iirrnniI of half, and the :loiu\ one-fourth its width, the latter borne, as ilxname implies, in pairs, and generally accompanj^ingthe chevron—ou ettcli side of it. 7. The crota (. •4*4 #?! ^ tain old and very frequent bearings, whose true pe-culiarity seems to be that, instead of being takenfrom extraneous objects, they are representations ofthe wooden or metal strengthenings of the ancientshields. Thej- are ten in number, viz : 1, The chief(Fig. 3). the upper part of the shield separated frrtmthe rest by a horizontal line, and comprising, accord-ing to the requirements of Heralds, one-third of it,though this proportion is seldom rigidly adhered diminutive is the tillet, supposed to take u]) one-fourth the space of a chief, in whose lowest part itstands. 2. The ptle (Fig. 4). a band or stripe fromtop to bottom, said, like the chief, to occupy one-third of the shield. It has two diminutives, thepullet, one-half in breadth of the pale, and the indttrse,one-half of the p;dlet. S. The /iiifl (Fig. •)), !i simi-lar band crossing the shield diagonally from dexterchief to sinister V)ase. Its diminutives are the hendletor giirtir, one-half of its breadth ;
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