The Grammar of Heraldry/Chapter 5
Appearance
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.
- 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.
- Gorged.—When an animal has a crown encircling the neck it is thus blazoned. The badge of the De Bohuns was, a black swan ducally gorged and chained.
- Guarded.—Trimmed, or turned up; commonly applied to a mantle or chapeau.
- Issuant.—Rising from. This term is also used when a charge (usually a demi-lion) is issuing from the bottom of a chief. When the charge is from the centre of an ordinary, usually a fess, it is described as Naissant.
- Lined.—Attached by a line, usually affixed to the collar of an animal (see crest of Baldwin in Appendix). The term is also applied to the lining of a mantle, chapeau, &c., when borne of a different tincture.
- Maned.—Horses, lions, &c., are maned of the hair on their necks: they are also sometimes described as crined of the same.
- Masoned.—As though built with stone, like a castle. Fig. 148.
- Naissat.—Issuing from the centre of an ordinary, or charge. The subjoined example (Fig. 173) would be blazoned, Ermine; naissant from a fess az., a demi-lion or.
- Rebated.—When the head of a weapon, &c., is broken, or cut off.
- Renversée, or Reversed.—Turned contrary to the usual way.
- Salient.—See Springing.
- Segreant.—Rampant. This term is used in blazoning a griffin standing on its hind legs, with wings displayed.
- Springing.—Used only when speaking of stags, and beasts of the chase. Beasts of prey, when springing, are blazoned as salient.
- Stringed.—Applied in specifying the tincture of the string wherewith a bugle-horn is suspended, or of the strings of a harp. The arms of Ireland are, Az.; a harp or, stringed arg.
- Treflée.—Bordered with trefoils, as is the bend borne by the Prince of Wales for Saxony.