_Equipped._ Fully armed, caparisoned, or provided.
[Illustration: No. 240.--Electoral Bonnet.]
[Illustration: No. 241.--Shield of Byron.]
_Erased._ Torn off with a ragged edge; the contrary to _Couped_.
_Ermine_, _Ermines_, _Erminois_. Nos. 57-60 and 57A. The animal, the ermine, sometimes appears in blazon, and an ermine spot is borne as a charge.
_Escroll._ A ribbon charged with a motto; also a ribbon, coiled at its extremities, borne as a charge.
_Escutcheon._ An heraldic shield: Nos. 39-40: also No. 27. An Escutcheon, when borne as a charge, is usually blazoned as an "_Inescutcheon_": thus, the Arms of HAY are,--_Arg., three inescutcheons gu._: see also Nos. 131, 133.
_Escutcheon of Pretence._ A shield charged upon the centre of the field of another shield of larger size, and bearing a distinct Coat-of-Arms.
_Escallop_, or _Escallop-Shell_. A beautiful and favourite charge; No. 165.
_Esquire._ A rank below that of Knight. Besides those Esquires who are personal attendants of Knights of Orders of Knighthood at their installations, this title is held by most attendants on the person of the Sovereign, and all persons holding or having held the Sovereign's commission in which they are so styled.
_Estoile._ A star with wavy rays or points, which are six, eight, or sometimes even more in number: No. 242. (See _Mullet_.)
_False._ Said of any charge when its central area is removed--thus, an _Annulet_ is a "false roundle."
_Fan_, or _Winnowing Fan_, or _Vane_. The well-known implement of husbandry of that name, borne by the Kentish Family of De Sevans or Septvans--_Az., three fans or_ (E. 2). This shield appears in the Brass to Sir R. DE SEVANS, A.D. 1305, at Chartham, in Kent, and in the cloisters at Canterbury.
_Fan Crest._ An early form of decoration for the knightly helm, exemplified in the 2nd Great Seal of RICHARD I., and in many other Seals, until about A.D. 1350. (See Chapter XIV.)
_Feathers._ Generally those of the Ostrich, sometimes of the swan, the turkey, and a few other birds, borne generally as Crests and Badges, both singly and in plumes or groups. (See _Ostrich Feather_, _Panache_, and Chapter XIV.)
_Femme._ The Wife, as distinguished from the "Baron," the Husband.
_Fer-de-Moline_, or _Mill-rind_. The iron affixed to the centre of a mill-stone; No. 243: a modification of the _Cross-moline_; No. 97.