heraldry, a bearing in form of a long square. They are supposed to represent pieces of cloth of gold or silver; but Guillim thinks they represent a letter sealed up, and other authors take them for bricks. Billet signifies that the escutcheon is all over-strewed with billets, the number not ascertained.

Billet-Wood, small wood for fuel, cut three feet and four inches long, and seven inches and a half in compass; the size of which is to be inquired of by justices.

Billetting, in military affairs, is the quartering of soldiers in the houses of a town or village.—And, among fox-hunters, it signifies the ordure and dung of a fox.