scutcheonn.1
/ˈskʌtʃən/ 1. † d. Used for: A shield. Obsolete.
a. = escutcheon n. 1. Formerly often †scutcheon of arms.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > escutcheon or shield > [noun]
shieldc1320
scutcheona1366
escutcheon1480
sinister1572
scute1575
cutchion1632
a1366 Romaunt Rose 893 With losenges and scochouns.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 99 For as scottis token þe skochen of armes of seynt george & here-bi traieden englischemen, so [etc.].
1395 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 4 Tapites of sute,..ypouthered with chapes and scochons, in the corners, of myn Auncestres armes.
1459 in Paston Lett. (1872) I. 477 Item, j. ball of coper gilt, embrauded rechely with j. skogen hongyng therbi.
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. b iv Fesy target is whan a scogion or an engislet is made in the myddull of the cootarmure.
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. e iii b It shall be shewyt in thys scoochon next folowyng.
1527 in J. Gage Hist. & Antiq. Hengrave, Suffolk (1822) 47 For xiij skuttchens with armes.
1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys ii. f. xli Settyng vp our skouchyn and cote armours on the wall.
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Scutulum, a littell shielde or scouchin.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 315 The scuchen of armes gyuen to Colon by Don Ferdinando.
1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 43 If the man haue maried an heyre, he shall beare her cote, none other wise, vntill he haue begotten an heyre of the heyre. Then may he, by the curtesy of armes, beare her armes in an Inscocheon, that is to saye, a scocheon of pretence.
1569 Reg. Coll. Merton. 1 June A greate salte duble gylte with a cover square havinge a mane holdinge a squitchin with W. M.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 686 Greit Squechonis on hicht, Anamalit and weill dicht.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xxviii. 485 The leaues be smal and tender (triangled like a scuchion).
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 560 My Scutchion plaine declares that I am Alisander. View more context for this quotation
c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 112 Which were all rychlie hanged with schuchions and targattes and banners.
1601 J. Lyly Loves Metamorphosis i. i I will hang my Skutchin on this tree in honour of Ceres.
1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. Bv They [sc. flowers] sticke like the scutchions of madame chastity, on the sable ground.
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Z8v Betwixt two golden scutchins ouer the dore.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. i. 233 In the Crest and Scucheon of many Noble families. View more context for this quotation
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 51 His Scutcheon was the three burning Thunder-Bolts. View more context for this quotation
?1718 A. Pope Corr. (1956) I. 509 One vast arch'd window beautifully darken'd with divers scutcheons of painted glass.
1808 W. Scott Marmion i. xii. 34 And on the gibbet-tree, reversed, His foeman's scutcheon tied.
1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 95 A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.
b. figurative. = escutcheon n. 1b.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > [noun] > a person's
rumourc1425
scutcheonc1440
repute1597
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) liv. 236 God haviþe iij. scochens, scil. [the] powere, the whiche is the scochon of the fadir; he hathe wisdome, þe which is þe scochon of the sone [etc.].
1683 Apol. Protestants France iv. 18 Had not Heresie,..been so great a blot in her Scotcheon.
1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 13 Carefully avoiding a sort of blot in their scutcheon, which they think would degrade them for ever.
1838 Wilson's Hist. Tales Borders IV. 151 You have blotted..the proudest scutcheon of England.
1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons II. iv. v. 55 A scutcheon as stainless as the best.
c. transferred.
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a1678 A. Marvell Clorinda & Damon 3 I have a grassy Scutcheon spy'd, Where Flora blazons all her Pride.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > shield > [noun]
shieldc825
boardOE
randOE
targe1297
rowelc1330
aegisc1425
scutcheon1600
disc1791
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. v. 215 Here are the fires of Vesta, here be the scutcheons come downe from heaven.
2. A hatchment. = escutcheon n. 2.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > formal or ceremonial mourning > [noun] > coat of arms or heraldic ornament
hatchment1522
trickmenta1625
escutcheona1672
scutcheon1711
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > escutcheon or shield > [noun] > hatchment
hatchment1522
escutcheona1672
scutcheon1711
1711 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1909) I. 152 Ane accompt off the Laird of Balnagowns ffuneral charges... Wm. Kerr painter in Nairne for Scutchins.
1739 H. Walpole Let. to R. West 21 Apr. Priv. Corr. (1820) I. 19 The burial..was a most vile thing... No plumes,..led horses, scutcheons, or open chariots.
1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 154 The busy heralds hang the sable scene With mournful 'scutcheons.
1814 Ld. Byron Lara i. iii. 39 A hundred scutcheons deck with gloomy grace The Laras' last and longest dwelling place.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles ii. xxviii. 73 It..Rends Honour's scutcheon from thy hearse.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Kickleburys (1851) 7 When Sir Thomas Kicklebury died..who does not remember the scutcheon with the coronet..that flamed over No. 36?
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society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > badge
livery1399
badge1440
scutcheon1442
entresign1480
token1516
marklet1647
1442 Coventry Leet Bk. 200 Sub Condicione quod habeant vnum Trumpet, prout infra fit mencio etc. & les skecons sub securitate inventa habebunt etc.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 267/2 Scochen a badge, escuisson.
1594 G. Ellis in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 25 He is upon a journey, messenger like, with a skuchin on his breast.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Descr. Germanie vi, in Annales 270 For a skutchion of their superstition, they carry the pictures of wilde Boares.
4. Anything shaped like an escutcheon.† a. A brooch. Obsolete.† b. Architecture. (See quots.)† d. The plate of a gun-lock. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > brooch or pin > [noun] > of specific shape or form
scutcheon1483
target1507
tussy1541
crotcheta1685
spray1803
safety pin1850
cluster-pin1873
luckenbooth brooch1882
fáinne1919
luckenbooth1976
1483 Cath. Angl. 326/1 A scuchon, monile, & cetera, vbi a bruche.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > vaulting > specific part
ogee1356
voussoir1359
severy1399
orb1500
squinch1500
scutcheon1565
ogive1611
pendant1706
groin1725
groining1742
cross-springer1815
boss1823
tail-piles1837
scoinson shaft1842
sectroid1860
boss-stonea1878
groinery1880
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Tholos,..a scochen in the middes of a timber vaute where the postes reste.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Thole A knot in the midst of a timber vault, where the ends of the posts meet, called a Scutchin.
c. Horticulture. A piece of bark cut more or less in the form of a shield, and bearing a bud, for grafting between the wood and the bark of a stock. = escutcheon n. 3d and shield n. [After French en écusson (16th cent. in Littré).]
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip > for grafting
imp1377
graffa1398
talionc1440
graft1483
slip1495
set1513
wedge?1523
scutcheon1572
shield1572
truncheon1572
breeder1601
scion1612
escutcheon1658
slit-graft1706
graffshoot1860
shield-bud1891
1572 L. Mascall tr. D. Brossard L'Art et Maniere de Semer v, in Bk. Plant & Graffe Trees 34 The fourth maner to graffe..is to graffe in the scutchion.
1572 L. Mascall tr. D. Brossard L'Art et Maniere de Semer v, in Bk. Plant & Graffe Trees 35 With the pointe of a sharpe knyfe softly raise the sayd shield or scutchion, round about, with the oylet in the middest.
1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 63 After your Scutcheon has put forth its first Sap, you may prune it at top.
1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. ii. 162 The Figure of a Scutcheon ought to resemble that of a V, when 'tis taken off from the Stock with its young Shoot.
1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry i. ii. 4 The tree might be grafted by a scutcheon.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > other parts of lock
scutcheon1631
bridle1771
bridle pin1799
feather-spring1807
comb1867
detant1884
1631 in R. Sanderson Rymer's Fœdera (1732) XIX. 315 For a whole Worke, consisting of the Pan, the cover of the Pan, the Scutchion, and the screw Pynn.
1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) IV. 82 Placentia..at present..supplies fourteen thousand four hundred [fire-locks], with the scutcheons of their locks.
e. A key-hole plate, a name-plate, etc. = escutcheon n. 3c.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of door > [noun] > door fittings > plate around keyhole
key platec1520
shield1649
escutcheon1663
scutcheon1706
society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > [noun] > label, tag, or ticket > name plate
door-plate1823
brass plate1836
nameplate1858
scutcheon1875
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Scutchion,..a small Plate of Iron or Brass to be set before a Lock.
1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 175 The key hole is covered with a double scutchion.
1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Scutcheon,..an ornament put round a key hole, door handle, knob of a door, or other similar object.
1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. i. 10 The scutcheons of locks are frequently ornamented.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2078/2 Scutcheon,..a name plate on a coffin, pocket-knife, or other object.
f. Zoology. A large scale or bony plate, a scute.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > hard or protective covering > scale > large scale or bony plate
cuirass1605
shield1704
carapace1835
scutcheon1846
scute1848
carapax1849
marginal1883
osteoderm1898
1846 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 51 368 The head and anterior part of the body [of this fossil fish] are covered with large osseous plates of scutcheons.
1846 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 51 369 The central lateral scutcheon plates.
1851 G. A. Mantell Petrifactions v. §ii. 448 The teeth, spines, or fin-rays, tubercles and scutcheons, vertebrae,..are the only parts preserved in a fossil state.
Compounds
General attributive. C1. (In sense 1.)
scutcheon fashion n.
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1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 353 The Baron is made by giuing him a square Ensigne, or Banner, but the Banneret, by an Ensigne in Scutchion fashion.
C2. (In sense 4b.)
scutcheon-graft n.
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1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. ii. 169 Make use of the Slit or the Scutcheon-Graft.
scutcheon-graft v.
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1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Grafting Let them be Scutcheon-grafted.
scutcheon-grafting n.
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1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. ii. 159 In Scutcheon-grafting we cut the Body of the Stock to Four Inches.
C3. (In sense 4d.)
scutcheon lock n.
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1850 J. Chubb On Constr. Locks & Keys 9 There is one adaptation of the principle of this lock, designed as a ‘scutcheon lock’.
C4.
scutcheon-like adj.
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1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xvii. 454 The scutcheon like graft.
1851 G. A. Mantell Petrifactions v. §2. 439 [Blochius longirostris] has..scutcheon-like scales.
scutcheonwise adv.
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1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner i. i. iii. 10 The most common and best Method of Graffing, is either cleftwise, or Scutcheonwise.
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scutcheonn.2
Architecture (historical).
Modernized form of Middle English scochon, scouchon, etc.: see scuncheon n.
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1845 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) I. 417 Scutcheon,..an old name for the angles of buildings or parts of buildings, such as window-jambs, &c. but apparently for those only which are more obtuse than right angles.
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† scutcheonv.
Obsolete (? nonce-word)
transitive. To trick out on a scutcheon.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldry > describe heraldically [verb (transitive)] > depict or paint heraldically > draw arms in outline
trick1545
scutcheon1596
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Q4 v To approue his Heraldrie, [he] scutchend out the honorable Armes of the smoakie Societie.
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