Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OR'DI-NA-RY, n. [In heraldry, figures frequently found in coat-armor. They are divided into greater ordinaries, which are the pale, the bend, the fess, the chief, the cross, the saltier, the chevron, and the border; and lesser ordinaries, as the fleur-de-lis, the annulet, the lozenge, the martlet, &c. – E. H. B.]