ΑΝ ALPHABETICAL EXPLANATORY INDEX O F TERMS OF HERALDRY; OF THE Figures and Terms of BLAZON, referring LIKEWISE, Of fuch Terms as are moft ufual and common Adorfed, Back to Back. Affronté, Refpecting each other. Gardiner, 254 10 Amethift, among the Gems, ftands for Purple; fee Tinctures. Annulet, (a Ring.) Arrows, broad or barbed. Mufgrave 25 Armed, the Talons and Claws, &c. of Beafts and Birds of Prey. I Augmentation, to Arms, (Arms of Ulfter.)- Newman, 444 B Barbed, (Arrow Heads.) B. Barr, of the Field in breadth, Burdet, 38 140 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 Wrey, of a Bend finifter, couped at both ends. Battle-Axe, or Pole-Axe. 93 Baton, or Batoon, Bear, Rampant. Bear's Heads, Langham, 196 Caboched, or Caboffed, denotes the Heads of Beafts to be full-faced, without any(Buck's Head.) 287 ARMS. Chappé, a chief divided by two Lines, from the Center on the Chaperonne, a little Shield with Death's Head, used at Funerals. Chaplet, Irby, 453 Checqué, or Checky, (well known) Cheveron, of the Field, which therefore }Trelawney 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- Decoupled, parted, uncoupled or disjointed, at the Reversed, with Point downwards. Cinquefoils. Clofe, (Birds, their Wings clofe to their - 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. Couple Clofe, of a Cheveron. Couped, cut off even. Celleton, 264 Courant, Current. More, 369 Crefcent, de-Lis. Cronel, or Cronet, of a Spear. Crofs, (Plain.) Botoné Eguise, see Voided. Formé throughout, that is extend- ed to the Extremities of the Lawley, 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 Patée, the fame as Formé, Patonce, the End, not fo much Potent, Pierced, in the Middle ar Center. Quarter-Pierced, Voided Pointed, or Eguife. Crufuly, (ftrew'd with Croflets.) 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. Hardres, 163 Fisher, 74 Bacon, (Atch.) I Cotton, 15 Dolphin, ARMS. Hauriant, Frankland, N° 253 Fryer, 482 508 Doubling, Lining of Mantles; fee Mantles. Diamond, in Blazon, a Term for Sable; fee Tinctures. Doves, Auften, of Derhams, 477 Emerald, in Blazon, is used to exprefs Green, or Vert; fee Tinctures. Erafed, torn off, and left jagged. Ermine, White, powder'd with Black. Ermines, (Contre Ermine.) 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 Fufil, a Spindle, longer than the Lozenge, Shaw, 337 G. |