[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ordinary \or"dinary\, n.; pl. ordinaries -ri^z.
   1. law
      a roman law an officer who has original jurisdiction
          in his own right, and not by deputation.
      b eng. law one who has immediate jurisdiction in
          matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also,
          a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to
          perform divine service for condemned criminals and
          assist in preparing them for death.
      c am. law a judicial officer, having generally the
          powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
          1913 webster

   2. the mass; the common run. obs.
      1913 webster

            i see no more in you than in the ordinary
            of nature's salework.                 --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. that which is so common, or continued, as to be considered
      a settled establishment or institution. r.
      1913 webster

            spain had no other wars save those which were grown
            into an ordinary.                     --bacon.
      1913 webster

   4. anything which is in ordinary or common use.
      1913 webster

            water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and
            other ordinaries.                     --sir w.
                                                  scott.
      1913 webster

   5. a dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for
      all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction
      from one where each dish is separately charged; a table
      d'h^ote; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a
      dining room. --shak.
      1913 webster

            all the odd words they have picked up in a
            coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as
            flowers of style.                     --swift.
      1913 webster

            he exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and
            peddlers and to ordinaries.           --bancroft.
      1913 webster

   6. her. a charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or
      ten which are in constant use. the bend, chevron,
      chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are
      uniformly admitted as ordinaries. some authorities include
      bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. see subordinary.
      1913 webster

   in ordinary.
      a in actual and constant service; statedly attending and
          serving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. an
          ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a
          foreign court.
      b naut. out of commission and laid up; -- said of a
          naval vessel.

   ordinary of the mass r. c. ch., the part of the mass
      which is the same every day; -- called also the canon of
      the mass.
      1913 webster
see also:
ordinaries bend chevron chief cross fesse 
pale saltire subordinary in ordinary ordinary of the mass 
canon of the mass 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fess \fess\, fesse \fesse\, n. of. fesse, faisse, f. fasce, fr.
   l. fascia band. see fascia. her.
   a band drawn horizontally across the center of an escutcheon,
   and containing in breadth the third part of it; one of the
   nine honorable ordinaries.
   1913 webster

   fess point her., the exact center of the escutcheon. see
      escutcheon.
      1913 webster
see also:
fascia fess point escutcheon 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

fesse
     n : heraldry an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band
         across a shield syn: fess
see also:
fess 

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