chieftainship (chef tanship)

[ The tribal chieftainship and the religious organization of the Druids were both of them inherited from antichieftyt (chef'ti), n. [ chief + -ty, equiv. to IMG:content-0268.png:[blocks in formation] 1 Sam. xv. 21. chief (chef), adv. [ chief , a.] Chiefly. Thom- -ship.] Headship; authority. son. [Rare.] The chief of my conversation. Hervey , Meditations, I. 129. 4. In her ., the head or upper part of the escutcheon, from side to side, cut off horizontally by a straight line, and con taining properly a third part of the dimensions of the escutcheon. It is one of the honorable ordinaries, and is commonly considered as divided into dexter, sinister, and middle, the charges upon it being thus blazoned. 5t. The prime; the most imp or Argent a Chief Gules.