Transfixed - Pierced by an arrow or similar weapon. Said of an animal.
Transfluent - (-flu'ent) Passing or flowing through the arches of a bridge. (Said of water when so represented.)
Transmuted - The same as COUNTERCHANGED.
Transpierced - [TRANSFIXED.]
Transposed - (-pozd') Reversed; changed to a position opposite of the proper or usual position; as, a pile transposed.
Traversed - (trav'-ersd) Turned to the sinister side of the shield.
Treflee - (tray'-flay') Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross. [See CROSS BOTTONY.] Ordinaries, such as the bend, are sometimes borne treflee - that is, with trefoils issuing from the side.
Trefoil - (tree'-foil) A charge representing the three-leaved clover. Like the rose, it is generally, though not always, borne without a stalk.
Trefoiled - The same as TREFLEE.
Treille - (trel) Cross-barred work; lattice work. It differs from fretty in that the pieces do not interlace under and over, but cross athwart each other, being nailed at the joints. Also called trellis.
Trellis - The same as TREILLE.
Tressure - (tresh'-ur) A kind of border or hem, being, in fact, a diminutive of the orle, of which it is one-half its breadth. It passes around the field, following the shape and form of the escutcheon, whatever shape it may be; usually borne double. Being used in the royal arms of Scotland, it is naturally popular in Scottish heraldry.
Tressure Fleury - A tressure ornamented with fleur-de-lis on one side, with their ends inward.
Tressure Fleury-Counter-Fleury - A double tressure ornamented with fleur-de-lis on both sides, the flowers being reversed alternately. In the arms of Scotland, as in nearly all examples, the flower is divided by the border.
Tressured - Provided with a tressure; arranged in the form or occupying the place of a tressure.
- "The tressured fleur-de-lis he claims To wreath his
shield, since royal James." --Sir Walter Scott.
Trian - (tri'an) The aspect of an animal when neither affronte nor gardant, but midway between these positions.
Triarchee - (tri-ar'shee) Formed of three arches; having three arches.
Trick - To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate without color, as coats of arms.
- "They forgot they are in the statute, the rascles; they
are blazoned there; there they are tricked, they and their
pedigrees." - Ben Johnson: Poctaster, i, 1.
Tricorporal - (-kor'-po-ral) Three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion; the bodies of three beasts represented issuing from the dexter, sinister and base points, and conjoined to one head in the center of the shield.
Tricorporate - The same as TRICORPORAL.
Trien - (tri'-en) Three. The word is made use of by some heralds in the phrase a trien of fish -- three fish.
Triparted - Parted into three pieces; having three parts or pieces. This can be applied to the field or to the ordinaries and charges; as, triparted in pale, a cross triparted, etc.
Triple crown - The crown or tiara worn by the popes of Rome.
Triple pile - A truncated pile, ending in three projections.
Triple plume - The device of the Prince of Wales.
Trippant - (trip'-pant) Having the right forefoot lifted, the other three remaining on the ground, as if trotting. This term is applied to beasts of chase, as a buck, hart, etc., and is the same as passant, which is applied to beasts of prey.
Tripping - The same as TRIPPANT.
Triton - (tri'-ton) A variety of sea shell.
Tronconee demembre - (tron-kon-ay' de-mem'-bray) [French] Separated; applied to a bearing, such as a cross, cut in pieces and separated, but still retaining it's original form.
Truncheon - (trun'shun) A baton, or staff of authority.
The truncheon is the official badge of the Earl Marshal. It is a golden rod, tipped with black enamel, being blazoned at one end with the arms of the Sovereign, and at the other with those of the Earl.
Trunked - (trunkt) 1. When the trunk of a tree is of a tincture different from the branches it is said to be trunked of such a tincture. 2. Applied to a tree which has been shorn of its branches and separated from its roots.
Tuberated - Knotted or swelled out.
Turnstile - A revolving frame in a footpath to prevent the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of a person. A representation of this is occasionally seen as a bearing.
Tusked - (tuskt) Having tusks of a different tincture from that of the body. Said of an elephant, boar, etc. Example: If a boar was white with red tusks, he would be blazoned "A boar argent, tusked gules."
Twyfoil - Having only two leaves.
Tyrwhit - The lapwing.
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