Usually means: Charge on a heraldic shield.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. fess: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fess, fess: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fess, fess: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fess: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fess: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fess, fess: Wordnik
  7. fess: Wiktionary
  8. fess: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fess (fesse): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fess: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. fess: Dictionary.com
  12. Fess: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Fess: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. fess: Rhymezone
  15. Fess: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. Fess: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. fess: Free Dictionary
  18. fess: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. fess: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. fess: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. -fess: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FESS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. fess: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fess, fess: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fess: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (FESS)

▸ verb:  To confess; to admit.
▸ noun:  (heraldry) A horizontal band across the middle of the shield.
▸ adjective:  (UK dialect) Proud; conceited.
▸ adjective:  (UK dialect) Lively; active; strong.
▸ adjective:  (UK dialect) Of animals, bad-tempered, fierce.
▸ noun:  A surname from German.
▸ noun:  (medicine) Initialism of functional endoscopic sinus surgery.

Similar:
fesse, befie, fathom, fellowship, fiance, fink, Fain, feoff, Fennicize, fard, more...

Opposite:
bend, curve, twist, contort, warp

Types:
cross, bend, pale, bar, chevron, chief, bendlet, gyron, more...

Phrases:
fess up, fess point, fess points, Fess Parker, more...

Adjectives:
per, red, wavy, childish, post, broad, con, sinister, sable, blue, gold



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Similar:
fesse, befie, fathom, fellowship, fiance, fink, Fain, feoff, Fennicize, fard, more...

Opposite:
bend, curve, twist, contort, warp

Types:
cross, bend, pale, bar, chevron, chief, bendlet, gyron, more...

Phrases:
fess up, fess point, fess points, Fess Parker, more...

Adjectives:
per, red, wavy, childish, post, broad, con, sinister, sable, blue, gold



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