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Yale
yayl
  1. A beast so called was the sinister supporter of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, natural son of Henry VIII.
    “A yale argent bezanty, accorned, hoofed, gorged with a coronal and chained Or.”
    The late Mr.J. G. Nichols, in “Inventories of the Wardrobe, &c., of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond” (in the Camden Miscellany, vol. iii.), says (at p. lxxxviii.), “I am not aware that this animal is elsewhere known either in natural or heraldic zoology .... It differs from the heraldic antelope in having horns like those of a ram, and a tail like a dog's.“ The term yale occurs in the College records. – source: Parker
  2. The Yale is a strange creature the size of a horse with the tusks of a boar, a goatlike body, and extremely long, goatlike horns which it could move in any direction to meet attacks. The Yale is usually depicted with one horn pointing forward, the other back. It has a mane, a tufted spine, a tufted tail, and cloven hooves. It is a symbol of preparedness and readiness.
Yard-Measure
yard meh"shure
Alternate Terms: Measuring-yard, Measuring-yards

Only found in one or two examples. It should be drawn sufficiently elongated so as not to be confused with the billet, since it does not appear to have always the inches marked upon it. In neither of the examples on the Brasses in Cheam Church, Surrey, to ancestors of the Yerde family, are the measures so marked.

“Gules, a chevron between three yard-measures erect Or” – Yard, Devonshire.
“Gules, a chevron between three measuring-yards argent” – Yard, Kent.
“argent, a chevron between three measuring-yards Gules” – Inrys.

 
Yeux
you

(French) eyes.
 
Yew
you

This tree is found only in one or two instances.

“Ermine, two crosses patty vairy argent and Gules; on a chief azure an annulet between two yew-trees Or; a crescent for difference” – Broadwood.
“Ermine, two palets vairy or and azure; on a chief of the last a bezant between as many yew-trees of the second” – Brandwood, Durham.
“argent, a bugle-horn sable, in chief three yew-trees proper” – Morse, co. Somerset.

 
Yoke
yoke
Alternate Term: Double Ox-Yoke
  1. A log of wood, cut and curved to fit on an ox's shoulders, which has hooks at the end to harness the animal to a plough.
  2. This device appears variously represented, and two kinds are given in the margin. The first figure is copied from a MS. c. 1580; the second is later. The device is borne but rarely; one instance, that in the arms of Pybers, where the yoke is made of bamboo, will be found already noted under Cinnamon, and there are one or two others.
    “argent, three escutcheons Gules, in chief a pair of ox-yokes Or” – Hay.
    “argent, a yoke sable” – Newthall, co. Chester.
    “argent, a yoke proper and a crescent azure in chief, and in base three escutcheons Gules” – Hay-Dalrymple, co. Wigton.
York

The name of one of the six heralds in the college of arms.
 
Ypotryll

A rare heraldic monster with a boar's face and tusks, a camel's body (with two humps) and the legs and hooves of an ox.
 
Zebra
ze"bra

a black and white striped horse-like animal, which is associated with South Africa, and is sometimes borne in the arms of people linked with that country.
 
Zule
a zule
a zule
zules

A stylised column which is often confused with a chess-rook.

“Gules, three zules argent; a label of three points of the last” – Zuleistein.

 
Zurich Cross
a zurich cross
a zurich cross
zur"ich kros

An historical cross. Appearing in the colophon of the Zwingli Bible. It is not attested in Armory.
 

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September 9th, 2005