Entirely hidden by a superimposed ordinary, or charge.
 

An additional mark on a coat of arms, which may be retained or eliminated without altering its essential character.
 

The ceremony by which in medieval times one was dubbed a knight. Antiquaries are not agreed on what this was. It has been made an embrace around the neck, a kiss or a slight blow upon the cheek or shoulder.

“The new attorney-general having stooped down without objection to the usual accolade.” - Townsend's Lives of 12 Eminent Judges: Lord Eldon.

Gorged or collared, as lions, dogs and other animals sometimes are in escutcheons. Wreathed, entwined or joined together, as two shields sometimes are by their sides. The arms of a husband and wife were often thus placed.
Used substantively:

1. An animal with a crown on its head or a collar around its neck;
2. two shields united to each other by their sides;
3. a key, baton, mace, sword or other implement or weapon placed saltirewise behind the shield.

Between. For example, accompanied by four crescents, would mean between four crescents.
 

Any additions made to a shield by way of ornament, as supporters, etc.
 

Full-grown; applied to trees
 

Appear not to be distinguishable from serpents and snakes, except as regards size. They are represented as nowed, embowed, or erect. When not otherwise described they would be represented fesswise, but curling. Vipers’ heads also occur.

“Gules, an adder nowed Or” – Natherly.
“Sable, three chevrons ermine between as many adders argent” – Wise, Warwick.
“The same between three adders erect Or” – Wise, Brompton. Also embowed vert – Wise.
“Vert, three adders erect argent” – Hassell, Wraysbury.
“azure, on a bend argent, three adders embowed of the first” – Castleton, Surrey.
“argent, three viper's heads erased proper” – Hatsell, 1708.
“Vert, three asps in pale Or” – Aspendall.

Something added to a coat of arms as a mark of honor, such as, for instance, a bordure, a quarter, a canton, a gyron or a pile. (Opposed to abatements.)

“They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase Soil
our addition; and indeed it takes from our achievements.” – Shakespeare: Hamlet, 1, 4.

Adoptive arms are those held by a person not by right of descent or in virtue of himself, but merely by the gift or consent of another.
 

Ornamented or furnished with a charge.
 

Said of a charge depicted with a shadow of the colour of the shield – rare.
 

An antelope, or a tiger with horns and hoofs.
 

Sharply pointed. Applied especially to a cross on an escutcheon which has its four angles sharpened, but still terminating in obtuse angles. It differs from the cross fitchee in that whereas the latter tapers by degrees to a point, the former does so only at the ends.
 

From Middle French: Winged.
 

A dog. Specifically, a hunting dog.
 

One of the herald's of the Lord Lyon's Court. Scotland.
 

an alberia

A plain shield; without ornament or armorial bearings.
 

The only case of either of these borne in English arms is,
“Gules, a chevron argent between three alligators ....” – Hitchcock br]“Per chief Gules and Or, in base an olive-tree eradicated and fructed proper, in chief the head and fore-legs of a crocodile issuant proper” – Dalbiac, Bedford.
 

an allocamelus

The asscamel, a mythical animal compounded of the camel and the ass. This was used as a crest by the Eastland Company.
 

This term is used to describe the eyes of animals when they are depicted sparkling or red.
 

a alphyn rampant

The Alphyn is much like the tyger but being thicker and stockier of body with tuftes of hair all over it's body, a thicker mane, long pointed ears, a long thin tongue, and a knotted tail.
 

A term applied to the first and fourth quarters on an escutcheon, which are generally of the same kind. Also applied to the second and forth , which also similarly resemble each other.
 

This signifies walking: coambulant, walking together.
 

A name for the mythical animal called the Basilisk. It resembles a cockatrice, but is two headed, the second head being affixed to its tail.
 

In this cross the four extremities resemble the flukes of an anchor. It is emblematic of hope through the cross of Christ.
 

Said of a hand open, showing the palm. This, however, is the ordinary mode of displaying the hand, unless expressly termed “dorsed”.
 

badge of Catharine ofArragon

The pomegranate. The tree, the branch, and the fruit are all found borne in arms, the last generally represented as slipped. The badge of Catharine of Arragon affords a good illustration of the manner in which the fruit is represented.
 

Pointed. Applied to things which touch at the points or ends, as two swords touching each other at their points or tips.
 

an apre

a fictitious animal, resembling a bull with the tail of a bear.
 

Adorned with eagles' heads. (Used almost exclusively in the past participle.)
 

an arbalest or crossow

A crossbow, consisting of a shaft of wood and furnished with a string and trigger. It was not a popular weapon, as it required no strength or manliness in its use.
 

an archiepiscopal crss

A Latin cross crossed. The second crossbeam is said to represent the logophoron of the of crucifixion, or the temporal power exercised by an Archbishop. Adopted by secular heraldry, but often displayed by churchmen. Confused in early blazon with the cross Lorraine. It is attested in Harl. Ms. 1635, the bearings of Ralph de Turbine, Bishop of Rochester 1108, Archbishop of Canterbury 1114 -1122; sable an Archiepiscopal cross argent.
 

A lozenge shaped buckle.
 

One well acquainted with coats of arms; skilled in heraldry.
 

This term is used in a case where the last representative of an aristocratic family adopts an outsider to assume his armorial bearings and inherit his estates.
 

Arms which came into a mans possession by matrimonial alliances, as the arms of his wife which are impailed with his own, and those of heiresses, which he in like manner quarters. To illustrate: When Gilbert Talbot (who died in 1274) married Gwenllian, heiress of the Welsh Prince Rhys ap Griffith, he laid aside his paternal coat – "bendy of 10 pieces, argent and Gules" - and adopted that of the lady – "Gules, a lion rampant Or, within a border engrailed of the field" – as still used by the Earls of Shrewsbury.
 

Those arms which a person may legitimately assume.
 

Arms of Community for Oxford University

Those borne by corporations, religious houses, colleges, cities and boroughs, inns of court, guilds and the cinque ports, some of which go back to an early period
 

Arms granted by a sovereign to commemorate some great deed. The heart on the arms of the Douglases is in memory of the mission of James Lord Douglas with the heart of Robert Bruce to the Holy Land. The families of De la Warr, Pelham, Vane and Fane bear arms in allusion to the share their ancestors had in the capture of John of France at Poitiers.
 

Are those belonging to empires, kingdoms, principalities, states, etc., officially used by the ruler de facto. The origin of some of these arms is obscure, such as the three legs conjoined in triangle of the Isle of man and the lion of Scotland. Occasionally the arms of dominion were those of an early sovereign or governor. Thus the lions of England belonged to the Plantagnet kings. In the United States the stars and Stripes, now so well known throughout the world, had their origin in the coat of arms of the first President, the immortal George Washington, whose English ancestors bore “argent, two bars Gules, in chief three mullets of the second.” The arms of the State of Maryland are those born by Cecililus Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, Lord Proprietary of the Colony.
 

Those received by some distinguished person and borne with modifications by all his descendants.
 

Those borne by holders of certain offices which designate that office. For instance, the ancestors of the Dukes of Ormond, being hereditary butlers of Ireland, bore three covered cups. Garter, the principal king-at-arms of England, bears "argent, a cross Gules, on a chief azure a crown Or, encircled with a Garter of the order buckled and nowed between a lion of England and a lily of France."
 

Arms quartered by a sovereign belonging to a state over which he does not hold authority. Nearly all the earlier European sovereigns bore arms of this character. The kings of England, from Edward III until 1801, in the reign of George III, bore the lilies of France. The treaty of Amiens (January 1, 1801) stipulated that this quartering of the French arms should be abandoned.
 

The arms borne by the possessors of certain lordships or estates.
 

The personal arms borne by the sovereign of a country, as distinguished from those borne by him in his official capacity, being those of the country over which he rules. As set forth in arms of dominion, the personal arms of a ruler sometimes become those of the country. On the other hand, neither the arms of Baliol, Bruce nor Stuart ever became the arms of Scotland. Cromwell placed his arms on an escutcheon of pretense over those of the commonwealth, and William of Nassau did the same with those of England.
 

Arrangement refer to the placement of Charges relative to each other in a single organization. Charges forming a group so arranged as to follow the line of one or more of the ordinaries are said to be in fess, in bend, etc.
 

The Back. Volent en arrière is the term proper for a bird or insect flight from the spectator upward.
 

With one angle facing; showing the top and two sides. Said of a rectangular bearing, such as an altar.
 

A swallow.
 

Made circular or round.
 

Said of rays, flames, or smoke issuing upwards.
 

Ascribed crosses are those which have been ascribed by writers to historical personages from pre-heraldic times, and to causes and regions. They may or may not be recorded in historical use. crosses which fall into this category include crosses of the Saints and sects. These crosses are useful for their Allusive potential.
 

ashen keys

The seed vessels of the ash tree. Occasionally represented on an escutcheon.
 

The position which an animal occupies with regard to the eye of the spectator. It may be

• full aspect, that is full-faced, looking toward the spectator;
• passant, which is side toward him;
• trian aspect, neither the one or the other, but between the two.

A term applied to two birds facing each other, or looking at each other.
 

Assailant. Applied to a predatory animal when represented on the escutcheon as if leaping on its prey.
 

Rising out of.
 

an astral crown

a type of crown, devised for the arms of people connected with aviation.
 

One of the pursuivants of the Office of arms, Ireland.