Affrontee - (Af-fron'-ta) Two animals on a coat of arms facing each other. Face to face, as contradistinguished from back to back. [See ADDORSED.] Confronting one another is a phrase sometimes used in this connection.
Agacella - (Ag-a-cel'la) An antelope, or a tiger with horns and hoofs.
Aiguisee - (Ag-wis-se') Sharply pointed. Applied especially to a cross on an escutcheon which has its four angles sharpened, but still terminating in obtuse angles. It differs from the cross fitchee in that whereas the latter tapers by degrees to a point, the former does so only at the ends.
Ailettes - (Ai'-lettes) Small escutcheons fastened to the shoulders of armed knights. (Sometimes called emerasses.) They were of steel; were introduced in the reign of Edward I, and were the ancestor of the modern epaulet.
Aisle - (I-la) Winged.
Alaund - A dog. Specifically, a hunting dog.
Albany - One of the heralds of the Lord Lyon's Court. Scotland.
Alberia - (Al-ber'-i-a) A plain shield; without ornament or armorial bearings.
Allerion - (Al-ler'-i-on) An eagle without a beak or feet, and with wings expanded, their points turned downward. (Denoting imperialists vanquished and disarmed.)
Alliance - Arms of Alliance. [See under ARMS]
Allocamelus - (Al-lo-ca-mel'-us) The asscamel, a mythical animal compounded of the camel and the ass. This was used as a crest by the Eastland Company.
Allumee - (Al-lu'-may) This term is used to describe the eyes of animals when they are depicted sparkling or red.
Allusive - Allusive Arms. [See under ARMS.]
Alternate - Alternate quarters: A term applied to the first and fourth quarters on an escutcheon, which are generally of the same kind. Also applied to the second and forth , which also similarly resemble each other.
Ambulant - This signifies walking: coambulant, walking together.
Amethyst - (Am'-eth-yst) The term applied to the color called purpure when describing the armorial bearings of peers.
Amphisien cockatrice - (Am-phis'i-en cock'-a-trice) A name for the mythical animal called the Basilisk. It resembles a cockatrice, but is two headed, the second head being affixed to its tail.
Anchor - In heraldry the anchor is an emblem of hope.
Anchored Cross - In this cross the four extremities resemble the flukes of an anchor. It is also called anchry or ancre. It is emblematic of hope through the cross of Christ.
Ancient (Anshent) - The guidon used at funerals. A small flag ending in a point.
Anime - (An-e-may') Of a different tincture from the animal itself. The term is used when wild animals are represented with fire proceeding from their mouths. Also called incensed.
Annodated - (An'-no-dated) Bowed, embowed or bent like the letter S.
Annulate - (An'-u-lat) Having a ring or annulet. (Used specifically of a cross with its extremities thus fretted.)
Annulet- (An'-u-let) A ring borne on an escutcheon. Originally it stood as the symbol of nobility and jurisdiction, being the gage of royal favor and protection. In describing the arms the color of the annulet should always be expressed. When used as a difference, the annulet represents the fifth son.
Anserated Cross - (An'-ser-a-ted) A cross with one of its extremities shaped like the heads of lions, eagles, etc.
Ante - (An'-tay) Engrafted or joined into each other in any way, as by dovetails, swallowtails or rounds.
Antelope - Agacella is the heraldic antelope. Brooke, Lord Cobham, had for a dexter supporter an agacella, horned, tusked and armed or.
Apaume - (A-pa'u-me) Appalmed. A hand opened so as to exhibit the palm. A baronet of England or Ireland bears a sinister hand couped gules on an inescutcheon or a canton. It is blazoned "argent, a sinister hand, couped at the wrist, and apaume, gules."
Apple of Grenada - The pomegranate.
Appointee - (Ap-poi'n-tay) Pointed. Applied to things which touch at the points or ends, as two swords touching each other at their points or tips.
Aquilate - (Ak'-wil-ate) To adorn with eagles' heads.
Aquilated - (Ak'-wil-ated) Adorned with eagles' heads. (Used almost exclusively in the past participle.)
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Affrontee to Aquilated
Arbalest to Arms of
Assumption
Arms of Attribution to Arms,
Allusive
Arms, Assumptive to Azure
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