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Heraldry
Knots
Form a distinct group of early heraldic charges, and take their names from the families which bear them. Figs. 168 to 172.
The family of Harrlngton also bear a knot called by their name; but this is simply a fret, with the extremities of the saltire couped.
miscellaneous descriptive terms.
In addition to those descriptive terms already mentioned, the following are occasionally made use of:—
- Adumbrated.—Shaded, or under shadow.
- Baillonnée—A lion rampant, holding in its mouth a staff.
- Banded.—When anything, such as a garb or a sheaf of arrows, is bound together with a band of a different tincture, it is described as banded of that tincture.
- Braced.—Interlaced.
