in church-history, a sort of monks in the primitive Christian church. They were so called from living in common; in which they differed from the anchorites, who retired from society.

in a modern sense, is a religious who lives in a convent or community, under certain rules.

COEUR, in heraldry, a short line of partition in pale, in the centre of the escutcheon, which extends but a little way, much short of the top and bottom, being met by other lines, which form an irregular partition of the escutcheon. See Plate LXV. fig. 7.