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Addorsed ~ Back to back Annulet ~ A ring Argent ~ Silver, often shown as white Armed ~ Refers to a beast's claws, tusks, teeth or horns Azure ~ Blue Bar ~ A horizontal band, narrower than a fess but broader than a burrulet Barbed and seeded ~ Refers to the sepals between the petals, and the seed vessel of the heraldic rose Barrulet ~ A narrow horizonral band Barry ~ Divided into an even number of horizontal bands Bars gemells ~ Barrulets placed together in pairs Bend ~ A Broad diagonal band across the shield from dexter to sinister Bezant ~ A gold coin like roundel Bezanty ~ Strewn with bezants Bordure ~ A border Canton ~ A square figure positioned as the first quater of the shield, but smaller Checky ~ Divided in to square of alternate tintures, like a chess~board Chequy ~ Same as Checky Chevron ~ A broad rafer~shaped figure Chief ~ A broad horizonal band occupying the upper part of the shield Cinquefoil ~ A conventional flower like form of five petals Conjoined ~ Joined together Couped ~ Cut off (cleanly) Courant ~ Running Dexter ~ Right (as viewed by the bearer) Enfiling ~ Within, encircled by Ensigned ~ Placed above Erased ~ Torn off with a ragged edge Ermine ~ An heraldic fur, white with black "tails" Escallop ~ A scallop or cockle shell Escutcheon ~ A small shield Estoile ~ A star of wavy rays, usually six Fess ~ A broad horizontal band occupying the centre of the shield Field ~ The surface of the shield Fretty ~ Narrow diagonal bands crossing and interlacing Fructed ~ bearing fruit Gamb ~ A beast's foreleg Gorged ~ A beast's neck encircled with some object Guardant ~ Looking outwards, with the head fullfaced Gules ~ Red Habited ~ Dressed, clothed Hurt ~ A blue roundel In bend ~ Disposed along the line of a bend In chief ~ In the upper part of the shield In fess ~ Disposed along the line of a fess In orle ~ A number of charges disposed in the form of a border In pale ~ A disposed along the line of a pale Increscent ~ A crescent with horns to the dexter Indented ~ A partition line composed of serrations Inescutcheon ~ A small shield Labelled ~ Refers to the ribbons of a bishop's mitre Langued ~ Refers to a beast's tongue Lozenge ~ A diamond~shaped figure Martlet ~ The heraldic swallow Masoned ~ Refers to the mortar joints in masonry or brickwork Mullet ~ A five~pointed star, or a spur rowel Mural ~ Walled Of the field ~ Of the same tincture as the field Of the first ~ Of the first tincture mentioned in the blazon Of the last ~ Of the last tincture mentioned in the blazon Or ~ Gold, often shown as yellow Ounce ~ Name applied to members of the cat family ~ mountain pather, snow leopard or cheetah Pale ~ A broad vertical band occupying the centre of the shield Pall ~ A figure resembling the letter Y Passant ~ walking, right foreleg raised Pellet ~ A black roundel Per fess ~ Divided fesswise Per pale ~ Divided palewise Pile ~ A wedge~shaped figure Plate ~ A silver/white roundel Proper ~ In natural colour Purpure ~ Purple Quarterly ~ divided into four quarters Queue fourchée ~ With a forked tail Sable ~ Black Sejant ~ Sitting (on haunches) Sinister ~ Left (as viewed by the bearer) Vert ~ Green Wyvern ~ A dragon with only front legs |
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