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bach"e-lor
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A member of the oldest, but now the lowest, order of knighthood in Great Britain. Formerly a Bachelor meant a knight without a sufficient number of vassals to have his banner carried before him in battle.
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A soldier not old or rich enough to lead his retainers into battle with a banner.
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Badge of the Chief of
the clan MacKay
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badj
Alternate Terms: Cognizance, Livery
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A distinct device which is never borne on a shield or as a crest – although many of the fifteenth and sixteenth century badges were later also used as crests and supporters. Usually employed as a mark of ownership, or warn on the liveries of retainers.
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A distinctive emblem adopted by many families; not worn on the helmet like a crest, but used in various modes where a crest is now employed. It was embroidered on the sleeves of servants and followers, and carved or painted in buildings, etc.
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A distinctive mark; a cognizance. It is somewhat similar to a crest, but was not placed on a wreath, nor was it worn on the helmet. The badge was a possession of princes, noblemen and other gentlemen of rank, and to this day is retained by some of those houses. The badge of the Plantagenets was the broom plant (Planta genista); the line of Lancaster had a red rose, while the badge of the house of York was a white rose. former times badges were embroidered on the sleeves of the servants and retainers, and the practice is still in use to some extent.
In the time of Henry IV the terms livery and badge seem to have been synonymous.
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badj"r
Alternate Terms: Brock, Gray
A mammalian animal found in England and on the Continent. It is often used in heraldry.
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a hare playing the bgpipes
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bag"pipes
Bagpipes are only named in connection with the hare playing on them.
“Argent, three hares sejant playing upon bagpipes gules” – Hopwell, Devon.
“Argent, three hares sejant gules, playing upon bagpipes Or” – Fitz-Ercald, Derby.
(The illustration of a hare playing upon the bagpipes is from MS. Harl. 6563, written in the fourteenth century.)
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bag"win
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A mythical animal, having the tail of a horse, and with long horns curved over the ears.
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An imaginary beast like the heraldic antelope, but having the tail of a horse, and long horns curved over the ears, was the dexter supporter of the arms of Carey, Lord Hunsdon
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bale corded
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a bag of madder
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bale
Alternate Terms: Bag, Bags
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A package of merchandise corded: one containing silk occurs in the arms of the Company of Silkmen, while a bag of madder occurs in that of the Dyers. Madder was a plant, much used in dyeing, and is named but in this one instance. It is to be noted especially that the cords are of a different tincture from the rest. The bale, or bag, is to be distinguished from the bundle, or hank (e.g. of cotton, silk, etc.)
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“Argent, a ship of three masts in full sail on the sea in base, all proper; on a chief Or, a bale of silk corded proper, between two bundles of silk pendant of the last” – Company of Silkmen, London (Inc. and arms granted, 1631).
“Sable, a chevron engrailed Argent, between three bags of madder of the last, corded Or” – Company of Dyers (Inc. 1471)
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bal"let'
A bearing which consists of bezants, plates, hurts, etc., distinguished from each other by their color.
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balls
Balls, occasionally tasselled, are sometimes shown on charges.
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band"ed
When a garb is bound together with a band of a different tincture it is described as banded of that tincture.
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Alternate Term: Bandrol
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A small streamer depending from the crook of a crozier and folding over the staff.
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The small silk flag which occasionally hangs from a trumpet.
“From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross.” – Sir Walter Scott.
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a banner
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The oldest known representation
of the Danebrog (national
flag of Denmark) in the
arms of Denmark as shown
in the late fourteenth
century; Gelre Armoral.
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ban"ner
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A flag borne on the lance or staff. Originally rectangular in shape, of greater eight than width, it later became square. It was the distinctive flag of a knight banner and indicated his military rank.
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A square flag, generally embroidered with the owner's arms. No one below the rank of knight banneret is entitled to a banner.
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A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.
“Hang out our banners on the outward walls.” – William Shakespeare
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ban"ner-et
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Knight Banneret. The institution is an ancient one, and its members , who had the privilege of leading their retainers in battle under their own flag, ranked next in order below the Knights of the Garter, provided they were created on the battle field by the King; otherwise they took rank after baronets. The order is now extinct.
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Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; – commonly used as a title of rank.
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A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank. Note: The usual mode of conferring the rank on the field of battle was by cutting or tearing off the point of the pennon or pointed flag on the spear of the candidate, thereby making it a banner.
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Ermine, three bars wavygules
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bahr
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One of the ordinaries, being a horizontal band, narrowed than a Fess. Usually used when two or three are changed upon a shield.
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An ordinary which crosses the shield horizontally. It differs from a Fess in that it occupies only one-fifth of the field. There is room for but four bars on a shield.
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Resembles the Fess in form, but occupies about one-fifth of the field. Although practically a diminutive of the Fess, it is not reckoned as such, but a distinct ordinary. It is seldom (and in such few cases there is a chief) borne singly, and consequently is not confined, like the Fess, to the middle of the shield. It has two diminutives, the closet, which is half the bar, and the barrulet (fr. burèle), which is a quarter. As the bar occupies one-fifth of the field a greater number than four cannot be borne together. When three or four bars are borne in the same arms, they are, for the sake of proportion, drawn considerably narrower than one-fifth of the height of the field.
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Bars like the Fess may be embattled, dancetty, nebuly, wavy, etc., and a shield may be divided per bar and per base bar.
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“Ermine, three bars wavy gules” – Lacy
“Argent, two bars embattled Ermine” – Burnby, co. Devon.
“Argent, two bars counter embattled gules” – James, co. Essex.
“gules, two bars dancetty Or” – Samler.
“Argent, two bars nebuly sable, a bend Or” – Ppwer, co. Surrey, 1601.
“Azure, two bars wavy Or” – Sir Walter de la Poole
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bahrbed
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Bearded. Usually specifically of the arrow; also, of the five leaflets in the compound leaf of some roses.
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An expression chiefly applied to the metal point of an arrow, sometimes also to the green leaves of a rose, when any of these are of a different tincture. By the French also to the gills of cocks, etc. A cross when “barbed” is called a cross barby.
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“gules, three arrows Argent, barbed Or” – Nicholas Hales.
“Argent, on two bars gules, three roses of the field, barbed vert, seeded Or, two and one” – Orlebar, Bedford.
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bahr"behl
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A “bearded” fish found abundantly in the Thames and Lea. It is an early heraldic bearing.
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A large fresh-water fish (Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.
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bard"ed
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A horse in harness is said to be barded and caparisoned. Originally a barded horse was one protected by metal trappings, such as those ridden by Knights in medieval times. The armor covered the neck, breast and shoulders.
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Wearing rich caparisons.
“Fifteen hundred men . . . barded and richly trapped.” – Stow.
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gules, a barnacle arent
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bahr"nah-kle
Alternate Terms: Breys, Horse-Barnacle, Horse-Barnacles
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An instrument for pinching a horse's nose for the purpose of restraining him.
“The barnacles . . . give pain almost equal to that of the switch.” – Youatt.
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Generally spoken of as a Pair of barnacles, and in a roll of Henry III. called Breys, is supposed to represent at instrument used by farriers (fr. morailles) to curb unruly horses. It is occasionally borne extended, that is, horizontally.
With the French heralds this charge has caused much discussion. There broyes are borne by the family of Broyes (as well as by that of Joinville and Goy), and have been supposed to be respectively architectural festoons, instruments for torture of criminals, hemp crushers, as well as the meaning given above.
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“gules, a barnacle Argent” – Wyatt, Kent.
“Argent, three pair of barnacles, expanded in pale sable” – Bray, Cornwall.
“Argent, four bars wavy Azure on a chief gules, three pair of barnacles Or” – Smith, Suffolk.
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bar"on
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A nobleman of the lowest order of the English peerage.
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A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.
“The tenants in chief from the Crown, who held lands of the annual value of four hundred pounds, were styled Barons; and it is to them, and not to the members of the lowest grade of the nobility (to whom the title at the present time belongs), that reference is made when we read of the Barons of the early days of England's history . . . . Barons are addressed as ’My Lord,‘ and are styled ’Right Honorable.‘ All their sons and daughters ’Honorable.‘” – Cussans.
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A husband; as, baron and femme, husband and wife.
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The fifth and lowest rank of the British peerage. The title, introduced into England immediately after the Norman conquest, was originally applied to all the Thanes (or feudal lords under the rank of earl) who held great fiefs of several Knights' fees, but was subsequently restricted to those summoned by writ to parliament, a practice which dates from the reign of John. The first baron by patent was John Beauchamp of Holt, who was raised to the peerage by K. Richard II. in the eleventh year of his reign (Oct. 10, 1387) by the title of baron of Kidderminster. No other instance occurs until 10 Hen. VI.
Barons are not recognised as part of the English nobility quâ baron, i.e. Lord of the manor, unless they are duly summoned to be a Peer of Parliament; and before the reign of Charles II. Barons, even though peers of the realm, were not allowed to wear coronets, but only the crimson cap, with a plain gold band.
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bar"on and fem
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bar"on-ess
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The wife of a baron, or a woman who holds the baronial dignity in her own right.
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A noblewoman who holds the rank of baron or who is the wife or widow of a baron.
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bar"on-et
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The lowest British titled order that is hereditary. They are supposed to take precedence immediately after the Barons, but in reality their rank is inferior to that of the Knights of the Garter. The badge of a baronet is, sinister, a hand gules (“a bloody hand”) in a field Argent.
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A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of Knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.
The order was founded by James I. in 1611, and is given by patent. The word, however, in the sense of a lesser baron, was in use long before. “baronets have the title of ‘Sir’ prefixed to their Christian names; their surnames being followed by their dignity, usually abbreviated Bart. Their wives are addressed as ‘Lady’ or ‘Madam’. Their sons are possessed of no title beyond ‘Esquire.’” – Cussans.
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a bloody hand
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bayr'ohn-eht's badj
Argent, a sinister hand, erase open, and couped at the wrist gules: This is borne, by all baronets, on a canton, or on an inescutcheon placed on the middle chief-point, or the fess-point, so as least to interfere with the charges on the shield.
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bahred
Supplied with bars; placed between bars
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argent, four barrulets
gules; on a canton of
the second a mullet of
six points of the fist
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bahr"ru-let
Alternate Terms: Barrelet, Barruly, Bracelet
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The barrulet is one-fourth of a bar, and occupies a twentieth part of the field; never borne singly. When used in couples barrulets are bars gemel.
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The barrulet is a diminutive of the bar, of which it is one-fourth, that is to say, a twentieth part of the field; the closet being one half of the bar. It is never borne singly.
“Argent, four barrulets gules; on a canton of the second a mullet of six points of the first” – Wace.
“Azure, six barrulets gemel (=12 barrulets) and a chief Or” – Menell, York.
“Argent, seven barrulets gemel Azure (=14 barrulets)” – Ingersalem
“Sable, eight barrulets gemel (=16 barrulets) and a canton Or on two bars Azure, as many barrulets dancetty Argent. A chief indented of the second” – Sawbird
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barry of six azure andargent
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barry bendy sable andgules
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barry bendy sinister
sable and gules
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barry pily azure andargent
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bahr"ree
Alternate Terms: Barring, Barruly, Barry Bendy, Barry Bendy Dexter and Sinister, Barry Bendy Sinister, Barry Pily, Bend Barry
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bahrs gem"el
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Two barrulets placed near and parallel to each other.
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Bars placed parallel to each other. A bar with closets placed in couples.
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Two horizontal bars on a field close to each other; a pair of bars.
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bahr"wise'
Horizontally arranged in two or more rows.
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gules, a base Or
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bays
Alternate Term: Base-Bar
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The lower part of a shield. Specifically, the width of a bar parted off from the lower part of the shield by a line horizontally drawn. (Sometimes called base-bar, baste and plain point.)
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The base is a horizontal line containing the bottommost part of the device.
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bahs"ih-lihsk
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A fabulous animal which was believed to be so deadly that even its breath was fatal to those who came near it. It somewhat resembled the Cockatrice, differing, however, in that it had two heads, the second being at the extremity of its tail. This additional head is the cause of it sometimes being called an Amphisen Cockatrice.
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A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal.
“Make me not sighted like the basilisk.” – William Shakespeare
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bahs"net
Alternate Terms: Bascinet, Basinet, Bassinet
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A plain, circular helmet.
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A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor.
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a bat
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argent, a bat displayedproper
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baht
Alternate Term: Rere-Mouse
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bahth
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Order of the Bath. An English order of knighthood, which was instituted by Henry IV in 1399, and revived by George I in 1725. It derives its name from the fact that candidates for initiation were required to bathe the night before investiture.
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A high order of British knighthood, composed of three classes, viz., Knights grand cross, Knights commanders, and Knights companions, abbreviated thus: G. C. B., K. C. B., K. B.
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a baton
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gules, two lions passant
guardant with a baton
sinister azure
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baht"on
Alternate Terms: Bastard Bar, Baston, Fissure
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A diminutive of the bend-sinister, couped at each end. It is a sign of illegitimacy.
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The Baton, or, more fully, the Baton Sinister, is a diminutive of the bend sinister, of which it is one-fourth the width. It is a rare bearing, and generally denotes illegitimacy. Sometimes, though erroneously, called a fissure.
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An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister.
“gules, two lions passant guardant (HENRY I.) with a Baton sinister Azure” – Reginald, base son of Henry I., created earl of Cornwall
It was said that the Baton should not be laid aside until three generations had borne it, and not then, unless succeeded by some other mark assigned by the king of arms, or unless the coat was changed. dexter batons are but rarely met with. Sometimes a small Baton appears in the mouths (fr. baillonné) or between the paws of animals, such as lions, dogs, bears, etc., but this almost entirely in crests.
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“Quarterly vert and Or a couped baston of the second” – De Hispania.
“gules, on a bend engrailed Or, a baston Azure” – Elliot (1666).
“gules, a chevron raguly of two bastons couped at the top Argent” – Christopher Draiesfield, Harl. MS. 1386.
“Argent, a lion rampant Azure, a dexter Baton compony Or and gules” – Sir Richard de Dockesseye.
“Argent, a lion rampant gules, over all a dexter baston compony Or and Azure” – Piers Lucien.
“Argent, a lion rampant sable holding a Baton in pale Azure” – Willisby.
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a battering-ram
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baht"ter-ing ram'
A bearing representing the engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places. It was a large beam, with a head of iron, sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram.
“Argent, three battering-rams barwise proper, headed Azure, armed and garnished Or” – Bertie.
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a battle-axe
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baht"le aks'
Alternate Term: Axe
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A weapon like an axe, formerly used in battle, hence it became conspicuous in heraldry.
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A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.
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baht"tled
A chief, chevron, Fess, etc., borne on one side in the form of the battlements of a castle.
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baht"tle-ment
Alternate Terms: Crenelation, Crenellation
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One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
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The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.
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A rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns.
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baw"drik
Alternate Terms: Baldric, Baudrier, Bawdrick
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The sword belt, possibly the prototype of the bend.
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A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt.
“A radiant baldric o'er his shoulder tied Sustained the sword that glittered at his side.” – Pope.
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a beacon
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bee"kon
Alternate Terms: Becn, Phare
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An iron cage or trived, containing blazing material, placed upon a lofty pole served to guide travellers; or to alarm the neighbourhood in case of an invasion or rebellion. The cressets, or lights anciently used in the streets of London were similar in form.
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“A beacon Or, inflamed proper” – badge of Henry V.
“Sable, three beacons with ladders Or, fired proper” – Daunt.
“Azure, three beacons with ladders Or, fired proper” – Gervays.
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beeked
Alternate Terms: Beeque, Beque
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When the beak and legs of a bird are of a different tincture from the body it is said to be beaked and membered of that tincture.
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This term is used of a bird having its bill of a color different from that of the body.
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bears addorsed
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argent, a bear rampant
sable, muzzled Or
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bayr
Alternate Term: Ours
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The bear is one of the beasts of heraldry. Early examples are the arms or Beresford and of Fitz Urse.
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Frequent in German arms, and in some instances in Scottish arms, but comparatively rare in English arms, though not unfrequent as a crest, and sometimes the head or jambs are chosen for the latter apart from the body. In one coat of arms Sea-bears are named: it is not clear what is meant, possibly Seals, but more probably Polar-bears. The canton of Berne in Switzerland, as well as the Abbey of S.Gall, exhibit the bear in their insignia. bears appear also as supporters.
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“Argent, a bear rampant sable, muzzled Or” – Bernard.
Sire Richard de Barlingham “de goules a iij ours de Argent” – Roll, temp. Ed. II.
“gules, on a bend Or a bear passant sable” – canton of Berne.
“Argent, a bear erect sable” – Abbey of St. Gall.
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bayr"er
The supporter of a shield on an escutcheon.
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bayr"ing
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beauseant
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beau'se'ant"
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a beaver
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bee'ver
Alternate Term: Castor
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Occurs in the insignia of Beverley, Yorkshire, and in other arms where the name suggests it; but it is used more frequently as a crest.
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“Vert, on a base Barry of five Argent and Azure two beavers, rampant combatant Or” – Thomas Beveridg, co. Chester, 1595.
“Or, a fesse Azure between lions rampant in chief gules, and a beaver passant in base proper” – beaver.
“Argent, three beaver's tails (erect) gules” – beaver.
”Argent, a cross gules between four beavers passant proper” – Hudson Bay Company (Inc. 1670).
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be"bal-ly
A word used by some of the old writers for party per pale.
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per pale bedeviled vert
and azure
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Or, a chief bevily vrt
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a line bedeviled
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bee-dev"iled
Alternate Terms: Beviled, Bevillé, Bevily
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a bee volant
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bee
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Sometimes made use of in heraldry. Sir Robert Peel used bees in his arms, and so did Sir Richard Arkwright. The bee is always represented flying, with wings extended, and generally upwards, and this is sometimes expressed by erect, but more correctly en arriere, i.e. flying away from the spectator. The Hornet also occurs on one coat.
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“Azure, three bees volant erect Or” – Bye
“Azure, three bees volant en arriere Argent” – Bye
“Sable, a chevron between three bees volant erect Argent” – Sewell
“Azure, on a fesse Argent a bee volant arriere sable” – de Verton
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argent, a bee-hive, beset
with bees diversely volantsable
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bee hive
Alternate Term: Ruche
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This device was granted to a Cheshire family named Rowe during the Commonwealth, but was afterwards also granted to several other families. Both the bee and the bee-hive appear as crests.
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“Argent, a bee-hive, beset with bees diversely volant sable” – Rower.
“Argent, a bee-hive, beset with bees volant proper” – Treweek, Cornwall.
“Ermine, a fesse sable between three bee-hives Or” – Fraye.
“Argent, on a bee-hive sable a hart lodged Argent, attired Or” – Sandellayer, Stafford
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a church bell
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behl
Alternate Term: Cloche
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Sometimes called a Church bell, is a large bell of the usual form. Smaller bells of a different shape are attached to the legs of hawks and falcons, when they are said to be belled; also to necks of bulls, etc.
When the clapper is of a different tincture it is to be so described. The cannon or ear may be also of a different tincture from the body or barrel of the bell.
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“Sable, three Church bells Argent” – Porter.
“Sable, a fesse Ermine between three bells Argent” – bell.
“Argent, three war bells gules” – Kedmarston, co. Suffolk.
“Azure, a lion rampant guardant within an orle of bells Argent, cannoned Or” – Osney, co. Lincoln.
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a falcon jessed and elled
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behled
When a falcon or hawk has bells affixed to its legs it is said to be belled.
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behl"lows
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These are of the usual form, and are borne with the pipes downwards.
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“Argent, three pair of bellows sable” – Scipton.
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a belt
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behlt
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A badge of knighthood.
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A token or badge of knightly rank.
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This charge is but rarely borne, and usually only a small portion of the leather is shewn; hence it is often Blazoned half a belt, and the buckles should be named as to position, tincture, etc. The belt worn over the shoulder, and crossing the chest and back, was termed anciently a baldrich or baudrick, and to the lower part was attached the sword. It is not borne by this name, but has been said, amongst other suppositions, to have been the origin of the bend.
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“Argent, a demy-belt fixed in fesse Azure buckled edged and garnished Or” – Beltmaine.
“Argent, three belts, the under parts couped in fesse Azure, buckled and garnished Or” – Narbon.
“gules, two pieces of belts (otherwise half-belts) palewise, in fesse, Argent, the buckles erect in chief Or” – Pelham.
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sable, a bend Or
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Argent, a bend wavy ules
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behnd
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One of the ordinaries, being a diagonal band from the dexter chief to the sinister base of the shield. The opposite diagonal is the bend sinister.
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A band passing from the upper dexter corner of an escutcheon to the lower sinister corner.
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One of the ordinaries. It is formed of two lines, and is drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base point of the escutcheon. It generally occupies one-fifth of the field; but formerly it was one-fifth only when plain, and one-third when charged.
The bend is said to have been derived from the border on a woman's cap known as a bend. It is possible that its origin was a representation of the baldric. According to some, the origin was a scaling ladder. In the beginning of heraldry the bend was a mark of cadency, but later became an honorable ordinary.
“The diminutives of the bend are the bendlet, Garter or gartier, which is half its width; the cost or cottice, which is one-fourth; and the riband, which is one-eighth.” - Glossary of heraldry
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Gules, a bend sinisterOr
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behnd sin"is-ter
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behnd"let
Alternate Term: Garter
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behnd"wise
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bendy sable and gule
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behn"dy
Alternate Terms: Bandé, Bending
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Divided bendwise into an even number of Bendlets, usually more than three.
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Divided into an even number of bends; – said of a shield or its charge.
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An escutcheon having bends which divide it diagonally into four, six or more parts is called Bendy. The lines are drawn in the same direction described under bend: when drawn in the contrary direction they are styled Bendy Sinister.
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Bandé is the French word for Bendy.
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Bendy Dexter and Sinister
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bendy dexter and sinster
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behn"dy dehks"ter and sin"is-ter
“Bendy dexter and sinister would appear as below, that is, the lines would produce squares, which would be similar to those of a field chequey, only placed diamond wise. They would differ from lozengy, q.v., which is more of a diamond shape, and fusilly, which is still narrower. An illustration is here given, but it is, we believe, a theoretical coat, and not one actually borne.” – A Glossary of Terms Used in heraldry, by James Parker, First Published in 1894
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bendy lozengy sable andargent
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bendy lozengy sinister
sable and argent
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behn"dy loz"en-gee
Alternate Terms: Bendy Lozengy Sinister, Paly Bendy
The term Bendy Lozengy refers to having each lozenge placed in bend. When the direction is reversed, it is Bendy Lozengy Sinister.
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bendy pily argent andvert
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bendy pily sinister sable
and Or
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behn"dy pil"ee
Alternate Terms: Bendy Piley, Bendy Piley Sinister, Bendy Pily Sinister, Piley Bendy, Pily Bendy
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“Bendy pily or pily bendy: divided into an even number of pieces by piles placed bendwise across the escutcheon. Although this seems to be referred to in several books on heraldry, no example has been found by way of illustration. The engravings here given, like the others illustrating the varieties of the fesse and bend in conjunction with other lines of partition, are from sketches by the late Mr.Wyatt Papworth.” – A Glossary of Terms Used in heraldry, by James Parker, First Published in 1894
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The term Bendy Pilely refers to divided into an equal number of pieces by piles placed bendwise across the escutcheon.
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bendy sinister azure
and Or
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behn"dy sin"is-ter
Alternate Term: Barré
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beht"oh-ny leef
Alternate Terms: Bethune Leaf, Bethune Leaves, Betony
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bev"illed
Alternate Term: Bevelled
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When the outward lines of an ordinary turn in a sloping direction.
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Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; – said of a partition line of a shield.
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At a bevil. This term is used of charges or anything similar.
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a bezant
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beh-zant"
Alternate Term: Talent
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A gold roundel, representing a coin of Byzantium of that name. It is supposed to have been introduced into English heraldry by the Crusaders, who had received the gold coin while in the East.
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A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants.
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A circle in Or, i.e., gold, representing the gold coin called bezant.
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beh-zant"e
Alternate Term: Bezanté
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Semée of bezants, or gold roundels. Bordure are often so charged, but the present mode is rather to give the number of roundels.
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Covered or studded with bezants; seme of bezants.
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a lion bicapiated
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by-cap'-i-ta-ted
Having two heads, such as the two-headed eagle on the arms of Russia, as well as on those of Austria.
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by-cor"po-rate
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Having two bodies; having the hinder parts in duplicate, with one head and one pair of forepaws.
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Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.
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by-cor"po-rat-ed
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Having two bodies; having the hinder parts in duplicate, with one head and one pair of forepaws.
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Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.
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bihg
Alternate Term: Big
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Barley. Specifically, the barley common to the north of Scotland, having six rows of seed. Bigland of Bigland bore “Azure, two ears of bigg Or”.
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Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.
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“bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg.” – New English Dictionary
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