OF SOME OF THE TERMS TO BE MET WITH IN HERALDRY - Abased, applied to a charge placed lower than its usual position.
- AccollÉe, side by side.
- Accrued, fully grown.
- Achievement, complete heraldic emblazonment.
- Addorsed, back to back.
- Agroupment, grouping of two or more shields to form one achievement.
- Ailettes, part of mail armour for protecting neck.
- AppaumÉe, open hand, showing palm (Fig. 51).
- ArmÉnie, ermine.
- Armes parlantes, allusive arms.
- Armory, heraldry.
- Aspersed, scattered over.
- Assurgeant, rising from the sea.
- Barbute, chin-piece of helm.
- Bardings, horse-trappings.
- Basilisk, cockatrice, produced from egg, laid by cock and hatched by a toad on a dunghill.
- Basinet, steel cap; part of old armour.
- Beacon, fire chest of burning combustibles set on a pole with a ladder against it.
- Bezant, disc-like coin.
- Birdbolt, arrow with a blunt head.
- Breys, horse curbs.
- Brisure, mark of cadency.
- Caltrap, or Cheval-trap, used to maim horses in battle.
- Cameleopardel, mythical beast.
- Chape, or Crampet, decorated top of sheath.
- Chatloup, fabulous horned animal.
- Chess-rook, chess piece.
- Chevronel, small chevron.
- Chimera, legendary beast.
- Cinque-foil, leaf or flower of five foils.
- Closet, bar diminished to half its width.
- ClouÉe, nailed, nail-heads showing.
- Conjoined in lure, wings united; tips in base.
- ContournÉe, facing to the sinister.
- Cornish-chough, crow with red beak and legs.
- Coronet, badge of Peer; Duke's, with eight strawberry-leaves of equal height above rim;
Marquis's, four strawberry-leaves alternating with four pearls on points of same height as leaves;
Earl's, same as Marquis's, but pearls raised above leaves;
Viscount's, with twelve silver balls on coronet;
Baron's, with six silver balls set close to rim. - CÔtise, diminutive bend.
- Coupled-close, half a chevronel.
- Cresset, a beacon.
- Crusilly, sown with cross crosslets.
- Cubit-arm, human arm couped at elbow.
- Debased, reversed.
- Debrusied, when an ordinary surmounts an animal or other ordinary.
- Decollated, said of a decapitated lion.
- Decrescent, half-moon, with horns to the left.
- Defamed, said of a lion looking backwards.
- Degraded, set on steps.
- Demembered, figure cut into bits, with original figure left unaltered.
- Depressed, surmounted.
- Dimidiated, cut in halves pale-wise, and one-half removed.
- Doubling, lining of a mantle.
- Eaglet, little eagle.
- Embowed, bent.
- Embrued, blood-stained.
- Endorse, a little pale.
- Enfiled, pierced with a sword.
- Enhanced, raised towards the chief.
- Ensigned, ornamented.
- Erne, eagle.
- Escroll, ribbon bearing motto.
- Erminites, fur, white, with black spots, and a red hair each side of spots.
- Fermail, a buckle.
- Ferr, horseshoe.
- Fetter-lock, chain and padlock.
- Fillet, diminutive of chief.
- Fitched, pointed at base.
- Flexed, bowed and bent.
- Fylfot, curious cruciform figure.
- Gadbee, horse-fly.
- Gambe, or Jambe, leg of beast of prey.
- Gorged, encircled round the throat.
- Gradient, walking.
- Grand quarters, four primary divisions of the shield.
- Greeces, steps.
- Guige, a shield-belt.
- Hames, parts of horse harness.
- Hastilude, tournament.
- Hatchment, achievement of arms in a lozenge-shaped frame placed over residence of a lately deceased person.
- Heights, applied to plumes rising in rows above one another.
- Hirondelles, swallows.
- Hoist, depth of flag from chief to base.
- Hurst, clump of trees.
- Jessant, shooting forth.
- Ladycow, ladybird.
- Lambel, label.
- Lion mornÉ, lion sans claws or teeth.
- Luce, Lucy, a pike.
- Lymphad, old galley.
- Membered, used to denote legs of birds.
- Nag, often used for horse.
- Opinicus, fabulous beast.
- Oriflamme, square scarlet banner with three tails.
- Overt, with open wings.
- Panache, a plume arranged fan-wise.
- Pascuant, grazing.
- Pean, a fur.
- Pelt, for hide.
- Pheon, pointed spear-head.
- Potent, variety of heraldic cross; also fur; also a crutch.
- Prasin, green.
- Purfled, bordered.
- Ragully, cut off roughly.
- Rebated, snapped off.
- Retorted, intertwined.
- Reynard, fox.
- Roundle, a circular figure; when gold, a bezant; when silver, a plate; when gules, a torteau; when azure, a hurt; when sable, a gunstone; when vert, a pomme.
- Roussant, about to fly.
- Sallet, a kind of helm.
- SarcellÉe, sawn through the centre.
- Shelldrake, kind of duck.
- TennÉe, or Tawny, deep orange colour.
- Timbre, the true heraldic crest.
- Torse, crest-wreath, made of two skeins of silk twisted together.
- Tressure, a subordinary.
- Tricked, sketched in outline with pen and ink.
- Trussed, said of birds with closed wings.
- Tun, barrel or cask.
- Tynes, branches of a stag's antlers.
- Varvals, small rings.
- Verdy, sown with leaves.
- Vol, two wings conjoined.
- Undy, wavy.
- Unguled, hoofed.
- Zona, old word for fesse.
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Transcriber's Note Sundry missing or damaged punctuation has been repaired. Both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants of many words occur in this book. All have been retained. The book contains many heraldic terms, derived from French, Arabic, etc. Any illustration which interrupted a paragraph has been moved to a more convenient location, between paragraphs. Some heraldic diagrams, which were unclear, have been repaired. Some chapters contain many Footnotes, usually marked * and † on each page they occur. To avoid confusion, the Footnotes have been numbered sequentially within each chapter, and indented and placed below their relative paragraph. Page 49: The Legends of the Fleur-de-Lys can be found here: (https://) travelfranceonline.com/fleur-de-lys-french-monarchys-emblem/ Page 74: 'repectively' corrected to 'respectively'. "These represent respectively the armorial bearings...." Page 75: Some armorial descriptions use spaced colons. These have been retained as printed. Page 80: 'On the cover we have the figure of a Crusader in his mail armour, bearing on his breast the badge of a red cross charged upon a white field.' The Crusader's badge would appear to be somewhere behind his shield, or perhaps under his surcoat.
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