Per fess Fig. 48 Per bend " 49 Per bend sinister " 50 Per pale " 51 Per chevron " 52 Per cross " 53 (though it should be noted that the more usual term employed for this is "quarterly") Per saltire Fig. 54 But a field cannot be "per pile" or "per chief," because there is no other way of representing these ordinaries. [Illustration: FIG. 48.--Per fess.] [Illustration: FIG. 49.--Per bend.] [Illustration: FIG. 50.--Per bend sinister.] [Illustration: FIG. 51.--Per pale.] [Illustration: FIG. 52.--Per chevron.] [Illustration: FIG. 53.--Per cross or quarterly.] A field can be composed of any number of pieces in the form of the ordinaries filling the area of the shield, in which case the field is said to be "barry" (Figs. 55 and 56), "paly" (Fig. 57), "bendy" (Fig. 58), "chevronny" (Fig. 59), &c., but the number of pieces must be specified. {98} [Illustration: FIG. 54.--Per saltire.] [Illustration: FIG. 55.--Barry.] [Illustration: FIG. 56.--Barry nebuly.] [Illustration: FIG. 57.--Paly.] [Illustration: FIG. 58.--Bendy.] [Illustration: FIG. 59.--Chevronny.] Another method of partition will be found in the fields "checky" (or "chequy") and lozengy; but these divisions, as also the foregoing, will be treated more specifically under the different ordinaries. A field which is party need not necessarily have all its lines of partition the same. This peculiarity, however, seldom occurs except in the case of a field quarterly, the object in coats of this character being to prevent different quarters of one coat of arms being ranked as or taken to be quarterings representing different families. {99} CHAPTER VIII THE RULES OF BLAZON The word "Blazon" is used with some number of meanings, but practically it may be confined to the verb "to blazon," which is to describe in words a given coat of arms, and the noun "blazon," which is such a description. Care should be taken to differentiate between the employment of the term "blazon" and the verb "to emblazon," which latter means to depict in colour. It may here be remarked, however, that to illustrate by the use of outline with written indications of colour is termed "to trick," and a picture of arms of this character is termed "a trick." The term _trick_ has of late been extended (though one almost thinks improperly) to include representations of arms in which the colours are indicated by the specified tincture lines which have been already referred to.