Her. An *honourable ordinary. As a verb, to add a charge to a shield of coat of *arms. When not specified, a charge was always placed at the fess point of a shield. For example, John de Wodehouse's arms were charged by a *chevron *or with *gouttes, i.e. spots, of blood, after the Battle of Agincourt (1415). The description of this latter would have been five gouttes de sang.
Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases. Christopher Coredon with Ann Williams.