Assumptive Arms - This now applies to arms which have been appropriated without proper authority. Originally, however, the term had a different meaning, as seen in the following:
- ". . . Assumptive arms are such as a person has a title
to bear, by virtue of some action done or performed by him, which
by birth he could not wear; as if a person that has naturally no
coat should, in lawful war, take a prince or nobleman prisoner, he
has from that time a right to bear the arms of such prisoner by
virtue of that military law that the dominion of things taken in
lawful war passes to the conqueror."-Dych: Dict. (1758).
Canting Arms - The same as Allusive Arms.
Feudal Arms - The arms borne by the possessors of certain lordships or estates.
Paternal Arms - Those that descend by custom to the male heir. The descendants of females (heiresses) can only quarter their arms, except by special license.
Arriswise - (Ar'-ris-wise) With one angle facing; showing the
top and two sides. Said of a rectangular bearing, such as an
altar.
Arrondee - (Ar-ron'-dy) - Made round.
Arrondell - A swallow.
Arrow - The arrow is frequently displayed in heraldry, either singly or in sheaves.
Ashen Keys - The seed vessels of the ash tree. Occasionally represented on an escutcheon.
Aspect - The position which an animal occupies with regard to the eye of the spectator. It may be (1) full aspect, that is full-faced, looking toward the spectator; (2) passant, which is side toward him; (3) trian aspect, neither the one or the other, but between the two.
Aspectant - (As-pect'-ant) A term applied to two birds facing each other, or looking at each other.
Aspecting - [The same as ASPECTANT.]
Aspersed - (As-per'-sed) Strewn or powdered with a number of small charges. [See SEME.]
Assaultant - (As-sa'-ult-ant) Assailant. Applied to a predatory animal when represented on the escutcheon as if leaping on its prey.
Assumption - Arms of Assumption. [See under ARMS.]
Assumptive - Assumptive Arms. [See under ARMS.]
Assurgent - (As-sur'-gent) Rising out of.
At Gaze - Applied to the hart, buck, stag or hind when represented full-faced, or with the face directly to the front.
Athole - One of the pursuivants of the Ofice of Arms, Ireland.
Attire - (At-ti'-re) The single horn of a stag. (The plural attires is used for two horns.)
Attired - Ornamented with horns or antlers. Applied to the stag or hart. A reindeer is represented with double attires - one pair erect and the other drooping. (Boutell: English Heraldry.)
- "Attired is a term used among heralds when they have
occasion to speak of the horns of a buck or stag." - Bullokar:
Eng. Expos. (1656).
Attribution - Arms of Attribution. [See under ARMS.]
Augmentation - Arms of Augmentation of Honor - A grant from a sovereign of an additional charge on a coat of arms to commemorate some great deed or a notable event. [See Arms of Concession, under ARMS.]
Aulned - (awn'd) Awned; bearded (Used of ears of corn.)
Au vol - [French.] On the wing. (Said of a bird.) [See VOLANT.]
Avellane Cross - (A-vel'-lane) A cross resembling four filberts.
Averdant - (A-ver'-dant) Covered with green herbage. The term is used specially of a mount in a base. (Gloss. Of Heraldry.)
Averlye - (Av'-er-lie) The same as ASPERSED, which see.
Aversant - (A-ver'-sant) Turned away. Applied to a hand of which only the back can be seen. Sometimes called dorsed.
Awned - [See AULNED.]
Axe - [See BATTLE AXE.]
Aylet - (Ay'-let) A name used to designate the Cornish cough (Fregilus graculus). A bird belonging to the crow family.
Ayrant - [See EYRANT].
Azure - Bright blue. Used especially in describing the escutcheons of gentlemen beneath the degree of baron. The same color on a nobleman's coat is called sapphire, from the stone, and that on the coat of a sovereign prince Jupiter, from the planet of that name. Engravers represent azure in heraldry by horizontal lines.
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Abased to Adumbration
Affrontee to Aquilated
Arbalest to Arms of
Assumption
Arms of Attribution to Arms,
Allusive
Arms, Assumptive to Azure
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