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a salmon naiant
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nay'ahnt
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Swimming.
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Swimming horizontally.
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Represented horizontally across the field, as if swimming toward the dexter side of the shield.
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Applied to any fish excepting the flying fish and shell fish.
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Said of a charge spring from the middle of an ordinary. Herein it differs from Issuant.
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Rising or coming forth. Applied to any living creature represented as issuing out of a fess or other ordinary.
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a naval crown
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na"val crown
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A circle, having upon its upper edge four masts of galleys, each with a topsail, and as many sterns placed alternately. Imaginative heralds say it was invented by the Emperor Claudius as a reward for sea service.
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“Gules, six ancient naval crowns Or” – Clyton, Scotland.
“Azure, a lion rampant argent charged on the shoulder with an eagle displayed sable; on a chief wavy ermine, an anchor erect of the third, the shank surrounded with a naval crown, rim Azure, sterns and sails proper” – Louis, Devon.
“Azure, a naval crown within an orle of twelve anchors Or” – Lendon (granted 1658).
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A crown formed with the stern and square sails of ships placed alternately upon the circle or fillet.
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a nebuly line
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Per bend sinister nebuly
argent and azure
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neb'you-lee
Alternate Term: Nebule
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Composed of undulations, like the wavy edges of clouds.
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A shield or bearing divided by such lines.
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A wavy line of partition, or by which ordinaries and subordinaries may be bounded.
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With the party line or outline of an ordinary more exaggerated than when 'wavy', rather like the outline of clouds.
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a nestorian cross
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nes-to"ri-an kros
An historical cross, found in the stone monuments of that Christian sect in China. It is not attested in period or SCA Armory.
Note: A Nestorian is an adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence.
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Alternate Term: Naval Point
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The third English King-at-Arms. He has jurisdiction north of the Trent.
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a serpent nowed
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nowd
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Knotted, usually of a creature's tail, or a snake.
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Twisted, or knotted.
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Knotted: tied in a knot, as a serpent or the tail of a lion.
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“Ruben is conceived to bear three bars wave, Jude a lion rampant, Dan a serpent nowed.” – Browne: Vulgar Errours.
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Nowy implies a round projection in the middle of a cross or other ordinary. It may however be nowy-lozengy, nowy-masculy, or nowy-quadrate, as it is lozenge-, or mascle-shaped, or square.
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A term applied to a projection in the middle of a cross or other ordinary.
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Applied to a projection not in the center of a cross, but in its branches.
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