Also 6 endorce, 7 endors. [app. f. ENDORSE v.; but the reason for the name in sense 1 is obscure.]
1. Her. A vertical division of a shield, one-eighth (others say one-fourth) of the breadth of a PALE. According to some of the early writers, so called only when a pale is between two of them; but others deny this.
1572. Bossewell, Armorie, 12. An Endorce … is the fourth parte of the Pallet.
1661. Morgan, Sph. Gentry, II. iii. 33. The Pale … is divided again into the pallet, which is half the pale, and the Endors which is half the pallet.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., Endorse … the eighth Part of a Pale.
1864. Boutell, Heraldry Hist. & Pop., v. 23. A Pale between two Endorses is said to be endorsed.
† 2. ? The reverse of a coin. Obs. rare–1.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 32/1. A Doller of Saxony…. On the Endorse two Mens Heads below the Shoulders respecting each other.
