Fess, or Fesse. One of the Ordinaries: Nos. [76]-[80]. Fesse-wise, In Fesse. Disposed in a horizontal line, side by side, across the centre of the field, and over the Fesse-Point of a shield: [No. 27, M].
Fetter-lock. A shackle and padlock—a Yorkist Badge: No. 245; is from the Brass to Sir S. de Felbrigge, K.G., at Felbrigg, Norfolk, A.D. 1414; this, however, being a very unusual shape.
Field. The entire surface of a Shield or Banner, or of an Ordinary.
File. A Label, from the Latin filum, a narrow ribbon.
Fillet. A diminutive of a Chief.
Fimbriated. Bordered—the border (which is narrow) lying in the same plane with the object bordered: No. [89].
Fish. Numerous Fish appear in blazon, and generally in their proper tinctures. They are borne as allusive charges, and also as types of some connection between those persons who bear them and the sea or lakes or rivers. Mr. Moule has published an admirable volume on the “Heraldry of Fish,” beautifully illustrated with examples drawn by his daughter. (See p. 77.)
Fitchée. Pointed at the base, as in [No. 110].