[Illustration: No. 36.]
[Illustration: No. 37.]
It may be divided into any number of _Quarterings_ by lines drawn _per
pale_ and _per fesse_, cutting each other, as in No. 36, which Shield is
_quarterly of eight_: in like manner the _Quarterings_ of any Shield,
whatever their number (which need not be an even number), are blazoned
as, _quarterly of twelve, &c._ This, to whatever extent the dividing of
the Shield may be carried, is _simple Quartering_. Again: a quartered
Shield may have one or more of its primary quarters, or every one of
them, _quartered_: this, which is the subdivision of a part, _the
quartering of quarters_, is _compound Quartering_: for example, in No.
37, the Shield is first divided into the _four primary quarters_,
severally marked A, B, C, D; then, so far as the quarters A, B, D are
concerned, the “simple quartering” is subjected to the process of
“compound quartering,” and quarters A, D are _quarters quarterly_, and B
is _a quarter quarterly of six_, while C remains unaffected by the
secondary process. The terms “_quarterly quartering_” and “_quarterly
quartered_” are used to signify such secondary quartering as is
exemplified in A, B, D of No. 37. The four primary quarters (A, B, C,
D of No. 37) are distinguished as _Grand Quarters_: consequently, the
quarter B of this example is the _second grand quarter, quarterly of
six_. This term “Grand Quarter” may be employed to distinguish any
primary quarter when any quarter in the Shield is “quarterly quartered.”
DIVIDING and BORDER LINES, in addition to simple right lines and curves,
assume the forms that are represented in the next diagram, No. 38:--
[Illustration: No. 38.]
No. 38. A. _Indented_
B. _Dancetté_
C. _Wavy_ or _Undée_ (2 varieties)
D. _Engrailed_
E. _Invected_ or _Invecked_
F. _Embattled_
G. _Raguly_
H. _Nebuly_ (2 varieties)
I. _Dovetailed_
Two others, less frequently met with, however, are _rayonné_ and
_flory-counter-flory_.
[Illustration: No. 39.]
[Illustration: No. 40.]
[Illustration: No. 41.]
[Illustration: No. 42.]
[Illustration: No. 43.]
[Illustration: No. 44.]
[Illustration: No. 45.]
[Illustration: No. 46.]
[Illustration: No. 47.]
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