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ALPHABETICAL EXPLANATORY

INDEX

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TERMS OF HERALDRY;

OF THE

Figures and Terms of BLAZON, referring
to the Baronets Arms:

LIKEWISE,

Of fuch Terms as are moft ufual and common
in ENGLISH ARMORY.

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Adorfed, Back to Back.

Affronté, Refpecting each other.

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Gardiner,

254

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Amethift, among the Gems, ftands for Purple; fee Tinctures.

Annulet, (a Ring.)

Arrows, broad or barbed.

Mufgrave
Hales

25

Armed, the Talons and Claws, &c. of Beafts and Birds of Prey.
Atchievement, comprehends the Efcutcheon of Arms, with all
its exterior ornaments, as Helmet, Mantle, Creft, Eicrols,
and Motto, marshall'd in their due order. Bacon
Attire, (of a Stag.)
Cocks, 305
Argent, one of the two Metals, (Silver) mark'd with the let-
ter A.

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Augmentation, to Arms, (Arms of Ulfter.)- Newman, 444
Azure, Blue, exprefs'd in Sculpture by lines from fide to fide,
Barways, and mark'd with the letter B.

B

Barbed, (Arrow Heads.)

B.

Barr, of the Field in breadth,

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Burdet,

38

140

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Barrs Gemel, (fee Ordinaries) Barrulets in Brigges,

Pairs

Barruly,

Barry, (2. and 3. Qu.)

Huffey,

Barrulet, of a Barr in breadth, feldom borne fingle, but in
Couples, with a Bar, or Fefs between them.

Wrey,

of a Bend finifter, couped at both ends.

Battle-Axe, or Pole-Axe.

93

Baton, or Batoon,

Bear, Rampant.

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Bear's Heads,

Langham,

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Caboched, or Caboffed, denotes the Heads

of Beafts to be full-faced, without any(Buck's Head.) 287

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ARMS.

Chappé, a chief divided by two Lines, from the Center on the
top, to the two lower Angles.

Chaperonne, a little Shield with Death's Head, used at Funerals.

Chaplet,

Irby,

453

Checqué, or Checky, (well known)

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Cheveron, of the Field, which therefore

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94

Chefs Rook,

can't contain above two.

Brifé, or Rompu, (broken.)

Couched, (lying to the Sides of the Shield.)

Counter-pointed, when the two points meet, the up-
per Cheveron being reversed.

Decoupled, parted, uncoupled or disjointed, at the
Angle or Point.

Reversed, with Point downwards.

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Cinquefoils.

Clofe, (Birds, their Wings clofe to their

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Seabright

79

Hawksworth, 392

Sides.)

Clofet, is half the Bar in breadth.

Cognizance, fee Creft.

Collar'd, or Accollé.

Colours, fee Tinctures.

Combatant, (two Lyons.)

Componed, or Gobony, one pain of Chequer divifions.

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Couple Clofe,

of a Cheveron.

Couped, cut off even.

Celleton, 264

Courant, Current.

More,

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369

Crefcent,

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de-Lis.

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Cronel, or Cronet, of a Spear.
Croflet, or Crofs Croflet,

Crofs, (Plain.)

Botoné Eguise, see Voided.
Formé, or Patée,

Formé throughout, that is extend-

ed to the Extremities of the Lawley,
Field.

Fitché, fharpen'd on the Foot.

Flory, having the End like a Fleur-Mannock,

Wifeman, page 37

Chernock, No. 285

Pile,

100

Rich,

371

Chetwode,

446

146

Halte,

32

85

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Patée, the fame as Formé,

Patonce, the End, not fo much
turned back as Flory.

Potent,

Pierced, in the Middle ar Center.

Quarter-Pierced,

Voided Pointed, or Eguife.

Crufuly, (ftrew'd with Croflets.)

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Debruifed, when an Animal feems reftrain'd or debarr'd its Freedom, by any of the Ordinaries being laid over it. Demy, (or half Lyons.)

Device, the fame as Motto.

Difclofed, (if a tame Fowl) is the fame as difplayed to Birds of Prey. Diftinctions of Houfes were anciently Additions of Ordinaries, Change of Tinctures, &c. but of later ufe are the Label of three Points for the eldest Son; a Crefcent for the fecond; a Mullet for the third; Martlet for the fourth; an Annulet for the fifth; a Fleur-de-Lis for the fixth; the Rofe for the Leventh; the Eight-Foil for the eighth; and the Cross Mo line for the ninth. The eldeft Son of a Son and Heir, diftinguifhes from his Grandfather, by a Label of five Points. Difvelloped, (Banner,) Difplayed.

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Hardres,

163

Fisher,

74

Bacon, (Atch.) I

Cotton,

15

Dolphin,

ARMS.

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Hauriant,

Frankland, N° 253

Fryer,
Vandeput,

482

508

Doubling, Lining of Mantles; fee Mantles.

Diamond, in Blazon, a Term for Sable; fee Tinctures.

Doves,

Auften, of Derhams, 477

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Emerald, in Blazon, is used to exprefs Green, or Vert; fee

Tinctures.

Erafed, torn off, and left jagged.

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Ermine, White, powder'd with Black.

Ermines, (Contre Ermine.)

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Erminites, the fame as Ermine, but that the Spots have red

Hair on each Side.

Erminois, where the Field's yellow, and the Spots black.

Efcallop, (Shells.)

Efcutcheon of Pretence, or Inefcutcheon.

Etoile, (Star.) if Or, its proper Colour,

it needs be only blazon'd Eftoile, not

naming any

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Fufil, a Spindle, longer than the Lozenge, Shaw,
Fufily, confifting of Fufils.

337

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