baronets,) is on a shield, or canton, argent, a sinister hand erect and apaumée, gu.

The Badge of Nova Scotia is, or, a saltier, az., thereon an escutcheon of the arms of Scotland, ensigned with an imperial crown, and encircled with the motto, Fax mentis honestæ gloria.

BADGER. Otherwise called a brock, is borne as a crest by several families, as a play upon their name; as Broke, Brook, Brooks, Brokelsby, Badger, &c. See Pl. xxx., n. 13.

BAG OF MADDER. This is a charge in the dyers' Pl. xxxviii., n. 1.

arms.

BAILLONNÉ. A term used to express a lion rampant, holding a staff in his mouth. Pl. xxxii., n. 15.

BALISTA. An engine used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones at the time of a siege. It is otherwise called a swepe, and is represented as engraved. Pl. xxxiv., n. 17.

BALL TASSELLED, Pl. xxx., n. 12. Argent, a chevron, between three balls sable, tasselled or; name, Ball, of Devonshire.

BALL, fired

proper. See FIRE-BALL.

BANDÉ, a French term for bend, implying the bend dexter.

BANDED: when anything is tied round with a band of a different tincture from the charge, as a garb, wheatsheaf, or sheaf of arrows, it is said to be banded; for example, A garb azure, banded or.

BANDEROLLE, a streamer, or small flag, affixed by lines or strings, immediately under the crook on the top of the staff of a crosier, and folding over the staff.

BANNER, a square flag, standard, or ensign, carried at the end of a lance.

BANNER, disveloped. This term is used for an ensign, or colours, in the army, being open and flying; as Pl. xxv., n. 1.

BAR is less than the fess, and is a diminution, containing a fifth part of the field, and is borne in several parts of the field; whereas the fess is confined to the centre. Pl. Iv., n. 14.

BARBED. The green leaves or petals which appear on the outside of a full-blown rose are in heraldry called barbs, and are thus blazoned: a rose, gu., barbed and seeded ppr.

BARBED ARROW, an arrow whose head is pointed and jagged.

BARBED AND CRESTED; a term occasionally used for the comb and gills of a cock, if of a different tincture from the body; but the usual term is combed and wattled.

BARBED, or BARBÉE, a cross so termed, as its extremities are like the barbed irons used for striking fish. Pl. xxxvii., n. 14.

BAR-GEMEL, from the Latin gemelli, twins, signifies a double bar, or two bars placed near and parallel to each other. Pl. VII., n. 16.

BARON and FEMME is used in blazoning the arms of a man and his wife marshalled together side by side. Baron expresses the husband's side of the shield, which is the dexter; femme, the sinister. See Pl. XL., n. 3. Achievements.

BARON'S CORONET. and Pl. XLIII., n. 10.

See CROWNS and CORONETS,

BARNACLE, a large water-fowl resembling a goosʊ; and by the Scots called a Cleg Goose. Pl. xxv., n. 11. The barnacle has a flat broad bill, with a hooked

point; the fore-part of the head is white, with a bead of black between the eyes; the neck and fore-part of the breast are black, the belly is white and brown, the thighs blackish, the back black and brown, the tail black the wings black, brown, and ash colour. Argent, a fess, between three barnacles, sable; name, Bernake, of Leicestershire.

BARNACLES, an instrument which farriers fix to the upper lip of a horse, to keep the animal quiet while they bleed, or perform any other operation. Pl. xxxiv., n. 35. Argent, three barnacles, gules; name, Barnack, of Leicestershire.

BARRULET is a diminutive, and the fourth of the bar, or twentieth part of the field. Pl. iv., n. 16.

BARRULY. See BARRY.

BARRY is a field divided by horizontal lines into four, six, or more equal parts counterchanged, and is termed Barry of six, eight, ten, or twelve; it being necessary to specify the number. Pl. v., n. 19. Barry of six, or, and azure; name, Constable.

BARRY-BENDY is a field equally divided into four, six, or more equal parts by lines, from the dexter chief to the sinister base, and from side to side interchangeably varying the tinctures. Pl. xxxvIII., n. 20.

BARRY-BENDY SINISTER, by some authors termed Barry indented.

BARRY-INDENTED, or barry of six, argent, and sable indented one in the other; name, Gise. Pl. xxxvii., n. 19.

BARRY-PILY of eight pieces gules, and or; name, Holland. Pl. v., n. 20.

BASE is the bottom or lower part of the shield, marked with the letters G, H, I, on the diagram, page 10.

IN BASE is the position of anything placed in the lower part of the shield.

BASILISK, an imaginary animal, represented like the fictitious heraldic cockatrice, and with the head of a dragon at the end of its tail. It is called the Amphisien Cockatrice, from having two heads. Pl. xxv., n. 13.

BASKET. See WINNOWING BASKET.

BASNET. The name of a head-piece worn in the 14th and 15th centuries, sometimes without and sometimes under the heaume or helmet. Argent, a chevron, gules, between three helmets proper; name, Basnet.

BAT. See RERE MOUSE.

BATON. See BATTON.

BATTERING-RAM. An ancient engine made of large pieces of timber, fastened together with iron hoops, and strengthened at one end with an iron head, shaped and horned like that of a ram, from whence it took its name. It was hung up by two chains, and swung forwards and backwards, by numbers of men, to beat down the walls of a besieged town or city. Pl. XLI., n. 7. Argent, three battering-rams, barwise proper, headed azure, armed and garnished or; name, Bertie.

BATTLE-AXE was a weapon anciently used in war, having an axe on the one side, whence it takes the name, and a point on the other; as also a point at the end, so that it could be used to thrust or cleave. Pl. XXVII., n. 21. Argent three battle-axes sable; name, Gyves cr Hall.

BATTLED ARRONDIE signifies the battlement of a town &c., to be circular on the top.

BATTLED-EMBATTLED is one battlement upon another and is a line of partition. Pl. xxxv., n. 28.

BATTON, BASTON, or BATON, signifying a staff or

truncheon, is generally used as a rebatement on coats of arms to denote illegitimacy. Pl. iv., n. 12. It is also, however, frequently adopted as a crest, without any reference to illegitimacy; as, an arm embowed, holding a baton, and many others.

BEACON. In ancient times, upon the invasion of an enemy, beacons were set on high hills, with an iron pot on the top, wherein was pitch, hemp, &c., which, when set on fire, alarmed the country, and called the people together. In the eleventh year of the reign of Edward III., every county in England had one, Pl. xxxiv., n. 16.

Prior to King Edward, the fire-beacons were made of large stocks of wood. Sable, three beacons fired or, flames proper; name, Dauntre.

BEAKED. A term for the bills of birds, which, when borne of a different tincture from their bodies, are said to be beaked of this or that colour.

BEAR, the well-known beast of prey so called, is common in coats armorial and crests. Pl. xxxi., n. 9. Or, a bear passant, sable; name, Fitzourse.

BEARING signifies any single charge of a coat of arms; but if used in the plural, the word is understood to describe the whole coat armorial. See CHARGES.

BEAVER, OF VISOR, is that part of the helmet which defends the sight, and opens in the front of the helmet.

BEAVER, an amphibious animal, noted for its extraordinary industry and sagacity, is naturally very frequently met with in heraldry. Argent, a beaver erected sable, devouring a fish proper, armed gules; this coat is in a window of New-Inn Hall, London. Pl. xxvi.,

BEE-HIVE and BEES. Bees are most wonderful and