Cockatrice - A fabulous animal supposed to have been produced from a cock's egg hatched by a serpent. [See BASILISK.]
Co-erectant - (co-erect'-ant) Applying to things set up side by side.
Coeur - The heart of the shield. The same as the center or fess point.
Cognizance - [See BADGE.]
Collar - An ornament for the neck worn by a knight or other member as a badge of that order.
Collared - The same as GORGED.
College of Arms - (Or Herald's College) is located on Queen Victoria street, E. C. , London, a royal corporation founded by King Richard III. It consists at present of the Earl Marshall, his secretary, a Registrar, three Kings at Arms - Garter, Clarenceux and Norry - and the following Heralds: Chester, Lancashire, York, Somerset, Richmond and Windsor. There are also four Pursuivants - Rouge Croix, Bluemantle, Rouge Dragon and Portcullis - besides various other officers. This institution determines all questions relating to arms and grants of armorial bearings. The office of Earl Marshal is now hereditary, being held by the Dukes of Norfolk. The corresponding college for Scotland is known as Lyon Court, and that of Ireland Office of Arms.
Color - For the colors of heraldry see TINCTURE.
Combatant - (con'-bat-ant) A term applied to beasts borne face to face, as in the attitude of fighting. (Also written Combattant.)
Community - Arms of Community [See under ARMS.]
Companion - A term applied to a certain grade of members in some of the knightly orders, as, a Companion of the Bath.
Companionship - The rank of a knight companion of certain orders.
Compartment - The partitions and quarterings of the escutcheon according to the coat in it.
Compone - [See COMPONY.]
Componed - [See COMPONY.]
Compony - (con-po'ny) A border, bend, etc., composed of a row of squares consisting of colors and metals. (Sometimes written componé.)
Compony Counter-Compony - The same as above, but arranged in two rows.
Composed - Arms Composed are the addition by a gentleman to his own armorial bearings of a portion of those borne by his wife. The practice is now obsolete, the device of marshalling the arms of one's wife with his own having rendered its continuance unnecessary. (Gloss. of Her.)
Concaved - When ordinaries, etc., are bowed in the form of an arch they are sometimes referred to as concaved.
Concession - Arms of Concession. [See under ARMS.]
Confronte - (kon'-frun'-tay') Face to face; two animals facing each other.
Conger - (kon'-ger) An eel. Specifically, the large sea eel found on the coast of Britain.
Contourne - (kon'-toor'-nay') [French.] Turned in a direction not the usual one. Applied to a lion or other animal statant, passant, courant, etc., with its face to the sinister side of the escutcheon. (Some writers use the word "counter" in this sense.)
Contre - (con'-tre) [French.] Used in composition, to describe several bearings when they cut the shield in a contrary and opposite manner. Example: Contre-chevron, alluding to two chevrons opposite to each other - where color opposes metal and metal opposes color.
Contey - (co'-ney) This is the heraldic rabbit. (Also written cony, coni, conni and conig.)
Corbeau - The same as CORBIE.
Corbie - (kor'-by) A raven; a crow. (Also written CORBY.)
Corby - The same as CORBIE.
Cordal - (cord'-al) A string of the robe of state, composed of silk and gold threads, twisted like a cord, and having a tassel at the end.
Corded - Bound or wound round with cords.
Cordon - (cor'-don) A ribbon worn across the breast by knights of some orders.
Cork - One of the heralds of the Office of Arms, Ireland.
Corned - When the horns of a beast, such as the bull, are of a different tincture from that of the body he is then said to be corned of that tincture. [See ARMED (3).]
Cornished - (corn'-ished) Adorned with a cornish or molding.
Coronet - An inferior sort of crown worn by nobles. The Prince of Wales coronet consists of a circle of gold, jeweled, edged above with four crosses patée and as many fleur-de-lis, and closed with four bars and an orb and cross. A duke's coronet is bordered with eight strawberry leaves; that of a marquis with four, alternating with four pearls; that of an earl has eight strawberry leaves alternating with eight pearls; the viscount uses pearls only, but of an indefinite number, while the baron is restricted to four pearls only.
The bishops of England have no coronet, but ensign their arms with a mitre.
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