Point

Point

Point, Base, Baste, or Base-Bar. Is the base of the shield cut off by a horizontal line, and blazoned a Plain Point. P. 21, f. 5.

The Point may be of any of the accidentalforms of lines, as a Point wavy, borne by the name of Hawkins, f. 43.

When borne Pointed it should be so expressed, as a Point Pointed, f. 2. It maybe on either side of the escutcheon, and is then termed a Point dexter, or sinister.