AffrontÉe, full-faced and fronting.

Argent, silver or white.

Azure, blue.

Badge, see p. 15.

Besant, a Byzantine coin, represented in Heraldry as a round flat piece of gold, without impress.

Blazon, the proper technical description of armorial bearings.

Charge, an heraldic bearing or emblem.

Chequy, a shield divided by horizontal and perpendicular lines into equal square spaces, alternately tinctured.

Chevron, a charge resembling the rafters of a house.

Colours, azure, gules, vert, sable, or purpure.

Couchant, an animal lying down.

Couped, the head or limb of any animal cut off by an even line.

Crest, see p. 15.

Dexter, the right hand.

Escutcheon, a shield of arms.

Escalop, a fan-shell, the pilgrim’s badge.

Fess, a broad horizontal bar across the centre of a shield.

Fess dancettÉ, an indented or zig-zag fess.

Field, the ground or surface of the shield.

Guardant, full-faced.

Gules, red.

Impaled, side by side on the same shield.

Issuant, coming out of.

Lozengy, a shield divided by transverse diagonal lines into equal lozenge-shaped spaces.

Metals, or (gold) and argent (silver).

Or, gold.

Ordinaries, certain common heraldic charges, such as the fess, the pale, the chevron, &c.

Pale, a broad perpendicular bar down the centre of the shield.

Passant, an animal walking past.

Proper, of natural colour.

Quartered, or quarterly, a shield divided into four quarters.

Reguardant, looking back.

Sable, black.

Saltire, a broad cross of St. Andrew on the shield.

Sejant, seated.

Sinister, left hand.

Statant, standing.

Supporters, animals which support the shield (see p. 14).

Vert, green.

Volant, flying.