A species of falcon. Its head is gray, the back dark-brown, and the legs light-blue.
 

The Salamander usually appears as an ordinary garden amphibian or lizard which had the ability to walk within flames, some stories saying due to the magical milky substance it's skin exuded to make itself impervious to fire, other stories saying that the salamander was an elemental creature of fire itself. It is sometimes shown as a fire breathing dog with a lion's tail.
 

Sable, three salmon hauriant argent -- Salmon

This fish is frequently blazoned in heraldry, though no very definite drawing has been noted. It is very frequently used for the sake of the play upon the name; sometimes by towns, perhaps, such as Kingston-on-Thames, Peebles on the Tweed, Lanark on the Clyde, in consequence of salmon being plentiful near them; and by families in consequence of the fish thriving on their estates. Mr.Moule, in his work on the heraldry of fish, has collected many stories accounting for the device. That on the insignia of the town of Glasgow is supposed to be in allusion to a remark of St. Kentigern the first bishop.

“Sable, three salmon hauriant argent” – John Salmon, bishop of Norwich, 1299-1325.
“Gules, three salmon hauriant argent” – Family of Gloucester.
“Gules, two salmon in pale argent finned Or” – Sams, co. Essex.
“Gules, a salmon in fesse argent” – Pisage.
“argent, a tree growing out of a mound in base, surmounted by a salmon in fesse all proper, in his mouth an annulet Or; on the dexter side a bell pendent to the tree of the second” – Royal Burgh of Glasgow.
“Three salmon hauriant in pale argent” – Town of Kingston-Upon-Thames.
“Gules, a salmon’s head couped argent with an annulet through its nose proper, between three cinquefoils of the second” – Hamilton, Scotland.

“Azure, three trout (interlaced, Or) fretted in triangle, ‘testes aux queues’ argent” – Troutbeck of Cornwall.
“Azure, two trout (? ged) in saltire argent” – Gedney, or Gedeney.
“Gules, a trout in bend argent” – Neve.
“argent, on a bend sable three trout Or” – Osborne, London.
“Sable, a chevron Or between three trout hauriant argent” – Foreman, Scotland.
“D’azur, à une truite d’argent en bande, marquetée de sable, accompagnée de 6 étoiles d’Or en orle” – Orcival, Auvergne.

“Azure, a chevron between three smelts naiant argent” – Smelt, co. York.
“Erminois, three sparlings hauriant two and one proper” – Sparling, Petton, co. Salop.
“argent, three umber fish naiant” – Umbrell.

“argent, three salmon spears points downwards sable” – Glynn, co. Cornwall.

Springing forward; in a leaping position. Applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, rat; also applied to the cat, greyhound and monkey.
 

Argent, a cross per saltire azure and vert

A treated cross, Given in the theoretical works, but not attested in period Armory.
 

In the manner of a saltire; when the shield is divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister and crossed at the center. Long-shaped Charges, such as swords, oars, batons, etc., placed in the direction of the saltire are said to be borne saltirewise.
 

Bloody, embrused.
 

(French.) A wild boar.
 

Without.
 

a savage

a savage's head

Said of a man when borne nude. Thus, “Three salvage men ambulant.”
 

Or, a laurel vert --SCA

The SCA is the Society for Creative Anachronism, which is a group dedicated to researching and recreating the Middle Ages in the present. Many groups meet weekly, and at these meetings we dance, talk, study, learn, revel, and make plans. Please visit their website at http://www.sca.org for more information.
 

A small ecclesiastical banner hanging down from the top of a crosier.
 

A diminutive of the bend sinister, occupying the same position as that bearing, but being only half its breadth. It is supposed to represent an officer's shoulder belt or scarf.
 

The ribbon-like appendage to a crest or escutcheon, on which the motto is inscribed.
 

a seadog rampant

Thought to be an artist's rendition of a creature he had never seen (the beaver), the sea dog is included in the family of sea chimeras such as the mermaid and the capricorn. A symbol of port towns and sailors.
 

The sea-dragon is also to be classed amongst monstrosities, though it has been suggested it is intended for the conger-eel, and thus the heads in the insignia of King’s Lynn have been blazoned “dragon’s heads.” Again, when the term occurs in the blazon of the crest of Sir Jacob Gerrard, Bart., 1662, it is said to be a wyvern.

“Per chevron Gules and Or; three sea-dragons ducally crowned counterchanged” – Easton, co. Devon.

The sea-gull, or curlew.
 

A maritime bird of a dark-brown colour, with a white breast.
 

a seax

A broad, curved sword, with a semi-circular notch on the back of the blade.
 

a lion sejant

Sitting, seated, in a sitting posture. Applied to the lion, cat, etc.
 

talbots sejant addored

Said of two animals sitting back to back.
 

Full-faced, sitting with the fore paws extended sideways.
 

In heraldry the term shafted is used to describe something having a shaft. The term is applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures.
 

a shake fork

A bearing somewhat resembling the pall in form, but the ends, which have points like the pile, do not touch the edges of the shield.
 

The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings of coats of arms. There are various forms, mostly taken from the shapes in vogue when shields were used in warfare. Maiden ladies and widows have no shield, but place their arms on a lozenge.
 

A term used to describe the opening or gashing in a sleeve when the puffing is of a different tincture. It is then slashed of a different tincture.
 

a slipped cross

A treated cross of singular occurrence. It is attested in Harl. Ms. 5866, the bearings of Radell; “argent a cross slipped vert.”
 

A word used by some modern Heraldic writers as a synonym of Volant.
 

The sun; used especially in the phrase, “a rose en soleil”, or “a rose surrounding with rays”.
 

One of the heralds of the College of Arms.
 

A chief apparently supported by a small part of the escutcheon beneath it of a different tincture from the chief itself, and reaching, as the chief does, from side to side; being, so to speak, a small part of the chief of another color, and supporting the real chief.
 

The iron part, or shoeing, of a spade.
 

Said of a horse that has the fore and hind feet fettered by means of fetterlocks fastened to the ends of a stick.
 

A stag in his third year.
 

The spear was an ancient instrument of war and hunting, and was introduced into heraldry under various forms. Generally called a lance.
 

The metal point of the spear: a common bearing among the Welsh.
 

Spotted; speckled over with another tincture.
 

The attitude of an animal looking upward with nose bendwise. Also applied to an animal at gaze, or looking forward. (Sometimes called in full aspect.)
 

A branch shooting out from the first part of a buck's horn at the top.
 

A tent.
 

the sun in its splenor

Glory; brilliance. Said of the sun when represented with a human face and environed with rays. It is then a sun in splendor.
 

An eagle having the wings and legs extended on both sides.
 

a spur rowel, or a mulletpierced

The mullet is often called a spur rowel, which it is supposed to represent. However, the mullet was in use long before the rowelled spur.
 

The title of one of the pursuivants of the Office of arms, Ireland. There are three pursuivants bearing this title, designated as Nos. 1, 2 and 3.
 

Applied to the sanguine and tenne when used in the figures called abatements – marks of disgrace.
 

There are some rare tinctures that are used, called stains, that are neither colour, metal, nor fur. These include bleu-celeste, brunatre, cendree, murrey, rose, sanguine, and tenne. These are used rarely, only coming into practice during the 16th century, and on into modern times.

Bleu-celeste - Sky-blue in colour.
Brunatre - Brown in colour
Cendree - Cinder-gray in colour
murrey - Mulberry-purplish red in colour.
Rose - Light pink in colour.
Sanguine - a) A dark red color. It is represented in engraving by diagonal lines crossing each other.
b) A roundel of the same stain.
c) One of the stains, blood red in colour
also called “Blood Color”
Tenne - a) One of the stains, tawny orange in colour
b) A tincture of a bright brown, which is considered to represent orange color. This color is almost unknown in English heraldry. In engraving it is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, traversed by horizontal ones – a compound of purpure and Azure.
also called “Tawney”, “Tawny”, “Tenne”
 

A wedge.
 

A bearing not so common and of less importance than the ordinary, or honorable ordinary. According to one writer, any ordinary occupying less than one-fifth of the field is deemed a subordinary. Again, different writers place different bearings among the subordinaries. The following list, however, many recognized authorities agree on:

• Bordure
• Flanch
• Fret
• Inescutcheon
• Gyron
• lozenge
• Orle
• Tressure
• Fusil
• Mascle
• Rustre
• Roundel
• Goute
• Billet
• Checky
• Voided

A quarter set aside in quartering arms out of the regular order for the royal arms or for an heiress when her quarterings are not broken.
 

Reversed; turned upside down; contrary to the natural position or usual way of bearing.
 

Succeeding or following one another.
 

Applied to a bearing that has another under it by way of support; as, a chief supported.
 

A cross with double anchor flukes at each end.
 

One charge placed upon or within another.
 

A long, flowing sleeveless garment made of linen, belted at the waist.
 

(French.) A shield of pretense; an inescutcheon placed upon a shield of arms. The arms of William III were so disposed of.
 

Looking upward.
 

This bird, which is also known as the hirondelle, is an early bearing. One of the best known of the early examples is the arms of the Arundells of Wardour, who bore "Sable, six swallows argent."
 

a swallow-tailed cros

An anserated cross. Though not attested in period Armory , it is used in SCA Armory, an example cited in the bearings of Leothgar de Sithia; “Per fess sable and argent a fess between two crosses swallowtailed each charged with a cross crosslet counterchanged”.
 

a swan

The swan was the cognizance of the Bohuns. Sometimes it is borne whole, sometimes only the head, like the arms of the Guests. When gorged with a ducal coronet having a gold chain attached to it, it is called a cygney-royal.
 

The balista or engine anciently used for casting stones into fortresses.
 

Fountains.