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Miscellaneous Descriptive Terms.
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- Bristled.—The tincture of the bristles on the back and neck of a boar.
- Cabossed, or Caboshed.—When the head of an animal is affrontée, and cut off so close that no portion of the neck is visible.
- Catoed.—A cross between four charges. Fig. 123.
- Caparisoned.—Used when speaking of the caparisons or trappings of a horse.
- Close-girt.—Signifyng that the clothes of a figure are bound tight about the waist.
- Collared.—Having a collar around the neck.
- Corded.—Bound with a cord.
- Counter-passant.—When two animals are walking, one towards the dexter, and the other towards the sinister, they are thus described.
- Dismembered.—Signifying that an ordinary or animal is cut into small pieces, which, though separate from each other, are placed sufficiently near to preserve the original shape of the charge. A lion rampant dismembered is borne by the Maitland family.
- Distilling.—Dropping; as a breast distilling milk; borne as a charge by the family of Dodge.
- Embrued.—When a weapon is bloody, it is described as embrued. The same term is applied to the mouths of lions, &c., when dropping blood, whilst or after devouring their prey.
- Enhanced.—Any ordinary removed above its proper situation. The Byrons bear, Arg.; three bendlets enhanced gu.
- Ensigned.—Ornamented, or garnished.
- Enveloped.—Entwined.
- Fimbriated.—Having a narrow border of another tincture (see Fig. 196).
- Flexed.—Bent.
