fess

To confess; to admit.

A horizontal band across the middle of the shield.

• Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral—Hum! Arms: Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable.
• The space where the arms of Wolsey used to be is being repainted with his own newly granted arms: azure, on a fess between three lions rampant or, a rose gules, barbed vert, between two Cornish choughs proper.

Proud; conceited.UKdialectal

• Y'll be fess enough, my poppet, when th'st know!"

Lively; active; strong.UKdialectal

Of animals, bad-tempered, fierce.UKdialectal