fesse, fess1 (fes)

[OF. fe e, a fe e, F. fai e and fasce, narrower. Argent, a Fe e Gules. I can't recollect the least morsel of a fe or chevron of the Boynets. Walpole , Letters, II. 476. Fe e angled, the fe e modified by having its direction broken and one half or a large part lifted higher than the rest, while retaining its horizontal direction. See fe e rectangled, acute - angled , etc. Fe e archy, fe e bowed, a bearing like the fe e, but slightly arched upward.Fe e arrondi, a fe e whose edges are broken by large, shallow, convex curves. The blazon should specify how many concave curves there are, and whether they are on both sides or not. Also called fe e gored.-Fe e bottony, a fe e having in the middle a rounded projection at top and also at bottom, so that it resembles a fe e combined with a central disk. Also called fe e pommetty and fe e nowy. - Fe e checky, a fe e charged with checkers in not le than three rows and in two alternating tinetures. Fe e dem i, a bearing representing half a fe e. It must be mentioned in the blazon whether the dexter or sinister half is borne. Fe e double-beveled, a fe e bent at each end, having usually one of the ends bent upward and the other bent downward. - Fe e fimbriated, a fe e having a narrow fimbriation which is continued all round, acro the ends as well as along the top and bottom boundary, so that it resembles a fe e surmounted by a fe e couped. Fe e rectangled, the break between the upper and the under part of the broken fe e if formed by right angles. In fe e, lying in the direction of the fe e -that is, horizontally acro the middle of the field: said of any bearing so placed. - Per fe e, or party per fe e, divided in the direction of the fe e-that is, by a hori' zontal line, or by a broken or varied line in a general horizontal direction.