I call upon

the judges to interpose the purity of their ermine to save us from this pollution. Lord Chas am. 5. In her . , one of the furs, represented with its peculiar spots black on a white ground (argent, spots sable). The black spots are indeterminate in number. In some cases a single spot suffices for one surface: thus, in a mantling ermine the dags have each one spot in the middle. Abbreviated er.