a bloody hand

The badge of the province of Ulster, Ireland - a sinister hand., couped at the wrist apaume gules. (“A bloody hand”). This was assigned by James I as the badge to the baronet's who were to colonize Ulster. It is now borne by all baronets of England and Ireland.

Ulster King At Arms

uhl"ster king at arms

The chief heraldic officer for Ireland. The office was created by Edward VI in 1552.

Unbent

uhn-behnt'

Very rarely used of a cross-bow.

Undy

Azure, three bars wavy argent -- Sandford	Argent, a bend wavy sable -- Wallop
a line undy

uhn'dee

Alternate Terms: Onde, Oundy, Unde

Barry Wavy; waving or wavy. This term is applied to ordinaries or lines of division.
(French.) Wavy; curved and recurved like waves.
Frequently termed wavy: one of the lines of division (as its name implies) drawn like the waves of the sea. It is found in the earliest rolls of arms, being more frequently applied to the fesse or bar. though also to the bend, and occasionally even to the cross, chevron, etc. “Oundé de long” probably means paly wavy.
William Gernon, “ounde de long d’argent et de goules” – Roll, temp. Hen. III.
Etienne Basan, “unde d’argent et de goules a ung quartier noire” – Ibid.
Sire William le Blount, “oundee de Or e de sable” – Roll, temp. Ed. II.
Monsire Daumary, “port unde argent et gules de vi peeces” – Roll, temp. Ed. III.
William de Samford, “ounde d’argent et de goules” – Roll, temp. Hen. III.
“Azure, three bars wavy argent” – Henry de Sandford, Bishop of Rochester, 1227-35.
“argent, a bend wavy sable” – Wallop (anciently Welhop), Hants.
“Barry wavy of six, argent and gules” – Basset, Leicester.
“Sable, two bars wavy paly wavy Azure and argent” – Rogerway.
“argent, a cross wavy gules; in the dexter chief a crescent sable” – Trevile.
“argent, two chevrons wavy between three fleurs-de-lis sable” – Pilland, co. Devon.

Unescutcheoned

Without an escutcheon; without a coat of arms.
"To his loved cemetery, here to lodge, With unescutcheoned privacy interred." -Wordsworth

Unguled

Alternate Terms: Onglé, Ungued

Having hooves.
Having hoofs of a tincture different from that of the body. (Said of a horse, stag, etc.)
This word signifies having nails, claws, talons, or hoofs, and is used only when they are of a different tincture. – Parker

Unicorn

Argent, a unicorn passant
gules, armed Or -- Sansam

a unicorn

yoo-nih'korn

Alternate Term: Licorne

A fabulous animal, with the head, neck and body of a horse, a beard like that of a goat, the legs of a buck, the tail of a lion, and a long tapering horn, spirally twisted, in the middle of the forehead.

The royal arms of Scotland had unicorns for supporters until the union with England, in 1603. The sinister supporter of the present arms of Great Britain is, “A unicorn argent, armed, crined and unglued or, gorged with a coronet of crosses patee and fleur de lys, with a chain affixed passing between the fore legs and reflected over the back of the last.”
This fictitious animal, so well known from being the sinister supporter to the royal arms, consists of a horse, from the forehead of which proceed a single horn like that of an ibex. The tail is tufted like that of a lion. It occurs in several coats of arms, and may be represented as trippant, sejant, salient, couchant, courant, climant, rampant, passant, etc. The head alone also is sometimes found.
“argent, a unicorn passant gules, armed Or” – Stansam, (From Glover’s Ordinary.)
“argent, on a bend sable three unicorns (one family bear calves) passant of the first” – Veale.
“argent, an unicorn rampant, (otherwise blazoned climant, also sejant,) sable, armed and unguled or” – Harling, Suffolk.
“Or, an unicorn rampant sable” – Hoye.
“gules, a fesse argent, in chief an unicorn courant Or” – Swansey, co. Hereford.
“argent, crucilly Or, an unicorn couchant, tail erect argent” – Doon or Donne.
“argent, an unicorn salient sable, horned Or” – Kerr, Scotland.
“Quarterly, first and fourth; Azure an unicorn salient argent, unguled, armed, and crined or within a bordure of the last, charged with eight thistles proper; second and third argent, three inescutcheons gules” – Robert Hay Drummond, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1748; of Salisbury, 1761; and Archbishop of York, 1761-76.
“argent, a bend and in chief an unicorn’s head erased sable” – Dennistoun.
“Ermine, a bend between two cotises; and in chief a unicorn’s head couped; in base a cross crosslet fitchy gules” – Edmund Denison, Bishop of Salisbury, 1837-54.

Unicorns are also found in the arms of the following families: – Cooke, Middlesex; Craftford, Worcester; Crole; Doane or Donne; Edwards, Cornwall; Edgebury; Faringdon, Devon; Flower, Oxon; Hunnis, Middlesex; Layer, Norfolk and Essex; Meldrum; Misterton; Meautys, Essex; O’Neylan, Ireland; Steede; Styleman, Wilts; Trevithick, Cornwall; Wilkinson.

Unicorn’s heads – Beverley, York; Chevalier, Scotland; Crosby; Freeling; Godley, Leitrim; Gofton, Surrey; James, Surrey; Overton, Bishop of Lichfield; Parish; Preston, Scotland; Shelley; Smith, Binderton, Sussex; Smyth-Bartelott, Sussex; Smith, Stockton on Trent; Womvill.
The unicorn has always been known as a symbol of purity and virtue, sometimes used as a symbol of Christ. Legend has it that the unicorn's horn has the power to heal sickness and purify water and that the unicorn could only be caught and tamed by a virgin.

Unifoil

A plant with only one leaf.

Urdy

a line urdy

Or, a fess urdy gule

uhr'dee

Alternate Term: Urdee

A complex field division line similar to the heraldic fur Vair.
Pointed. The cross urdee is an ordinary cross with the ends drawn to a sharp point instead of being cut straight.

Urinant

Diving: said of fish with the head downwards.
The opposite of haurient. The term is applied to the dolphin or other fish when represented with the head downward and the tail erect.

Urn

uhrn

Both urns and vases are occasionally named, and may be drawn of the usual classical shape. They are, perhaps, sometimes blazoned as caps.

“Or, three urns sable with flames issuant from each proper” – Blandy, Letcombe-Basset, co. Berks.
“Sable, three vases with double handles (otherwise flower-pots) argent” – Flanke.
“Azure, a sun in chief and a vase in base Or” – Vassal.

Urvant

ur-vant"

Alternate Term: Urved

Turned or bowed upward.