Enaluron - (en-a-lu'-ron) Applied to a bordure charged with eight birds.
Enarched - Arched.
Enarmed - Represented with horns, hoofs, etc., of a different color from that of the body.
Enclave - (in-kla've) [French.] Anything which is represented as let into something else, particularly when the bearing so let in is square.
Endorse - One of the diminutives of the pale, being one-eighth the breadth of that ordinary. The endorse is used only in pairs - one on each side of the pale. This subordinary, like the pallet, was unknown in ancient heraldry.
Endorsed - A pale having an endorse on each side.
Enfiled - Used to describe a sword drawn as transfixing the head of a man or animal, a coronet or other object.
Englante - (an-glan'-tay) [French.] Bearing acorns or something similar.
Englislet - (eng'-lis-let) An escutcheon of pretense.
Engoulee - (an-goo'-lay) An epithet applied to a bend, cross, saltire, etc., when the ends enter the mouths of lions, tigers or other animals.
Engrail - (-grail') To indent in curved lines; to make ragged at the edges; to spot as with hail.
Engrailed - Indented in a series of curves.
This is applied to one of the partition lines, as well as to some bends, etc.
- "Polwheel beareth a saultier engrailed." - Carew.
Engrailment - The state of being engrailed or indented in curved lines.
Enhanced - (en-hansd') Applied to an ordinary when removed from its proper position and placed higher up in the field.
Enleve - (an-lev'-e') [French.] Raised or elevated.
Enmanche - (an-man'-shay) [French.] Covered with or resembling a sleeve. Said when the chief has lines drawn from the center of the upper edge to the sides to about half the breadth of the chief. [MAUNCH.]
Enraged - In a leaping posture. It is sometimes used to describe the position of a horse which in the case of other animals would be saliant.
Ensign - To distinguish by a mark or ornament, such as a crown, coronet, mitre, etc. A bishop, for instance, ensigns his arms with a mitre.
Prelates of the Roman Catholic Church ensign their shields with a hat, the tassels of which indicate their rank. A cardinal has four rows of red tassels, an archbishop four rows of green tassels, a bishop has three rows and an abbot two, the latter's hat being black. Prelates and legates place a patriarchal cross in pale behind their shield.
A staff is sometimes said to be ensigned with a flag.
Ensigned - [See ENSIGN.]
Ente - (an-tay') [French.] Applied to an engrafted emblazonment. (Also written anté.)
Entoured - (en-toord") Said of a shield decorated with branches.
Entwined - The same as ENVELOPED.
Entwisted - The same as ENVELOPED.
Enurny - (en-ur'ny) A term used to describe a bordure charged with eight animals of any kind.
When birds are used, enalurion is the proper term.
Enveloped - Applied to charges around which serpents are entwined. Also used in the case of laurel or other plants.
Environed - (-vi'-rond) Encircled; bound round or about.
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