"Lion rampant double-headed. RAMPANT. Any beast in a fighting attitude." -Hall, 1862
"Lion rampant gardant. RAMPANT. Any beast in a fighting attitude." GARDANT. Facing foward. -Hall, 1862
"Lion rampant regardant. RAMPANT. Any beast in a fighting attitude. REGARDANT. An animal looking towards…
"Lion statant gardant. STATANT. An animal standing still with all its legs on the ground." GARDANT.…
"Lioncels combatant. LIONCELS. Two or more lions. COMBATANT. A French word for fighting." -Hall, 1862
"Or, two lions passant counter passant gules, the uppermost facing the sinister side of the escutcheon,…
This Italian faience lip-spout pitcher is a 16th century design made of glazed colors. It has blue lilies…
"Or, a lozenge vert. LOZENGE. An angular figure, known as diamond-shaped, to distinguish it from the…
"Argent, a lozenge, vert. The lozenge is formed by four equal and parallel lines but not rectangular,…
"The escutcheons of maiden ladies and widows are painted on a lozenge-shaped shield." -Hall, 1862
The Stanleys, as Kings of man, quartered the famous three-armed legs whirling mill-sail fashion
"Argent, a martlet, gules. MARTLET. An imaginary bird said to be without legs; it is used both as a…
"Argent, a mascle, vert. MASCLE. An open lozenge-shaped figure, one of the subordinate ordinaries."…
"Gules, a mascle, argent. The mascle is in the shape of a lozenge but perforated through its whole extent…
Melton bore Silver a Tolouse cross gules. By giving this cross a name form the counts of Toulouse, it's…
"Argent, a mermaid gules, crined or. CRINED. This is said of an animal whose hair is of a different…
The Great Seal of the State of Michigan. This seal shows the Michigan's coat of arms held by an elk…
"Argent, a millrind, gules. MILLRIND. The iron placed in the centre of a grindstone to protect the hole…
"Azure, a moon decrescent, proper. DECRESSANT, or DECRESCENT. A moon in its wane, whose horns are turned…
"Argent, the moon in her detriment sable. DETRIMENT. The moon is said to be in its detriment when it…
Sir Ralph Mounchensy bore in the 14th century Silver a chevron between three billets sable on the bend
"Azure, a mullet or. MULLET. From the French word molette, the rowel of a spur: it is generally drawn…
"Argent, a mullet pierced, sable, on a chief azure, three mullets pierced, of the first. PIERCED OR…
"Argent, three mullets gules, accompanied with seven cross crosslets fitchy sable—three in chief,…
"Per pale, or and azure, on a chevron, three mullets all counter-changed. COUNTER-CHANGED. The intermixture…
"Argent, a salmon proper, naiant, its head towards the sinister side of the shield. NAIANT. A French…
"KNIGHT AND BARONET OF NOVA SCOTIA. A new creation during the reign of George I. to induce capitalists…
A heraldic shield made of or (gold), which is represented by engraving dots of pricks into the shield.
A shield or escutcheon emblazoned with the metal tincture, or (gold), represented by dots.
"ORLE. A subordinate ordinary composed of double lines going round the shield at some distance from…
"Azure, an orle, argent. An orle is a perforated inescutcheon, and usually takes the shape of the shield…
This is a portrait-oriented frame featuring British coats of arms, scrollwork and symbols of art. The…