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ATCHE

Volume 3 · 59 words · 1815 Edition

in commerce, a small silver coin used in Turkey, and worth only one-third of the English penny.

ATCHIEVEMENT, in Heraldry, denotes the arms of a person or family, together with all the exterior ornaments of the shield; as helmet, mantle, creft, ferolts, and motto, together with such quarterings as may have been acquired by alliances, all marshalled in order.