Black - This color in heraldry is known as SABLE.
Blackamoor - A negro. Channing of Foxcote bore: "Argent, three blackamoors' heads couped sable, capped or, fretty gules."
Bladed - (Bla'ded) A term used when the stalk of any grain is of a color different from the ear.
Blanch - White. [Argent.]
- "Nor who, in field or foray slack,
Saw the blanche lion e'er fall black?"
-Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel
Blasted - When a tree is leafless it is said to be blasted.
Blaze - To emblazon: to blazon. (Contracted from blazon.)
Blazing star - A comet.
Blazon - (Bla'-zon) To describe a coat of arms; to give an accurate description.
- "Proceed unto the beasts that are given
in arms, and teach me what I ought to observe in their blazon." - Peacham
"The coat of arms of which I am not herald enough to blazon into English." - Addison
The word blazon comes from the German word blasen, to blow as with a horn, because in the age of heraldry the style and arms of each knight were so proclaimed on public occasions.
Blazoned - That which is blazoned ; a blazoned coat of arms.
- "Now largesse, largesse, Lord Marmion,
Knight of the crest of gold!
A blazoned shield, in battle won."
-Scott: Marmion.
Blazoner - One who blazons coat of arms.
Blazonry - The art of blazoning: to describe a coat of arms in the technical language of heraldry. The rules of blazon are remarkable for their precision, simplicity, brevity and completeness. The proper order of describing arms is: First, give the field, its color (or arrangement of colors, if more than one), and the character of partition lines when parted; second, the charges, and first those of most importance, their name, number and position (when an animal, its attitude); third, marks of difference, cadency, baronet's badge, etc.
Blazure - [From BLAZON.]
- "The blazure of his arms was gules." Berners: Froissart,
chap. 281.
Blemish - [See BLEMISHED.]
Blemished - (Blem'-ished) Having an abatement or rebatement. (Used of a sword with its point broken.)
Blighted - The same as BLASTED.
Block Brush - A bunch of the plant Butcher's Broom (Ruscus aculeatus). It is borne by the butcher's company of London.
Blood Color - Sanguine. (Not to be confused with BLOODY.)
Bloody - Gules.
Bloody Hand - A hand tinctured gules. The device of Ulster, hence borne by baronets.
Blue - This color in heraldry is known as AZURE.
Blue Mantle - One of the pursuivants in the College of Arms.
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Bachelor to Barrully
Barry to Belt
Bend to Bitted
Black to Blue Mantle
Boar to Bute
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