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The Paly of Four Ordinary is colors of argent (silver) and sable (black)

Paly of Four Ordinary

The Paly of Four Ordinary is colors of argent (silver) and sable (black)

The Paly of six Ordinary is in colors argent (silver) and sable (black) with a fesse counterchanged.

Paly of Six Ordinary

The Paly of six Ordinary is in colors argent (silver) and sable (black) with a fesse counterchanged.

The Party Per Pale and Saltire Ordinary is in gules (red) and argent (silver).

Party Per Pale and Saltire Ordinary

The Party Per Pale and Saltire Ordinary is in gules (red) and argent (silver).

The Per Bend Ordinary is in or and vert (green) colors.

Per Bend Ordinary

The Per Bend Ordinary is in or and vert (green) colors.

The Per Bend Ordinary has the dexter half in argent (silver), and the sinister (left side) per bend sinister in vert (green) and or.

Per Bend Ordinary

The Per Bend Ordinary has the dexter half in argent (silver), and the sinister (left side) per bend…

The Per Bend Indented is in azure (blue) and argent (silver) colors.

Per Bend Indented Ordinary

The Per Bend Indented is in azure (blue) and argent (silver) colors.

The Per Bend Sinister Ordinary is a bendy of six. It has colors of sable (black) and argent (silver), counterchanged.

Per Bend Sinister Ordinary

The Per Bend Sinister Ordinary is a bendy of six. It has colors of sable (black) and argent (silver),…

The Per Bend Sinister Ordinary has colors of argent (silver) and azure (blue).

Per Bend Sinister Ordinary

The Per Bend Sinister Ordinary has colors of argent (silver) and azure (blue).

The Per Fesse Ordinary has an upper half that is per pale sable (black) and gules (red), and the lower half is argent (silver).

Per Fesse Ordinary

The Per Fesse Ordinary has an upper half that is per pale sable (black) and gules (red), and the lower…

The Per Fesse Ordinary has gules (red) and argent (silver), and a pale counterchanged.

Per Fesse Ordinary

The Per Fesse Ordinary has gules (red) and argent (silver), and a pale counterchanged.

The Per Fesse Ordinary is of or and gules (red) color.

Per Fesse Ordinary

The Per Fesse Ordinary is of or and gules (red) color.

The Per Fesse Angled Ordinary is in argent (silver) and gules (red).

Per Fesse Angled Ordinary

The Per Fesse Angled Ordinary is in argent (silver) and gules (red).

The Per Fesse Dentilly is in gules (red) and argent (silver).

Per Fesse Dentilly Ordinary

The Per Fesse Dentilly is in gules (red) and argent (silver).

The Per Fesse Escartely Ordinary is in azure (blue) and or.

Escartely Per Fesse Ordinary

The Per Fesse Escartely Ordinary is in azure (blue) and or.

The Per Fesse Nebuly is in azure (blue) and argent (silver).

Per Fesse Nebuly Ordinary

The Per Fesse Nebuly is in azure (blue) and argent (silver).

The Per Fesse Potented is in or and gules (red).

Per Fesse Potented Ordinary

The Per Fesse Potented is in or and gules (red).

The Per pale Ordinary has colors of sable (black) and or.

Per Pale Ordinary

The Per pale Ordinary has colors of sable (black) and or.

The Per Pale Ordinary has the right half side in argent (silver) and the left half in per fesse azure (blue) and or.

Per Pale Ordinary

The Per Pale Ordinary has the right half side in argent (silver) and the left half in per fesse azure…

The Per Pale is a pattern of five sections on each side in the colors or and azure (blue), counterchanged.

Per Pale Ordinary

The Per Pale is a pattern of five sections on each side in the colors or and azure (blue), counterchanged.

The Per Pale Potented is in argent (silver) and azure (blue).

Per Pale Potented Ordinary

The Per Pale Potented is in argent (silver) and azure (blue).

The Per Pall Ordinary is in sable (black), argent (silver) and gules (red).

Per Pall Ordinary

The Per Pall Ordinary is in sable (black), argent (silver) and gules (red).

The Per Pall Ordinary is reversed in or, argent (silver), and azure (blue) colors.

Per Pall Ordinary

The Per Pall Ordinary is reversed in or, argent (silver), and azure (blue) colors.

The Per Saltire Ordinary is in vert (green) and argent (silver) colors.

Per Saltire Ordinary

The Per Saltire Ordinary is in vert (green) and argent (silver) colors.

The Pily Barwise Ordinary is in argent (silver) and azure (blue).

Pily Barwise Ordinary

The Pily Barwise Ordinary is in argent (silver) and azure (blue).

The Quarterly Ordinary has colors of or and azure (blue).

Quarterly Ordinary

The Quarterly Ordinary has colors of or and azure (blue).

The Quarterly Ordinary has the 1st and 4rth per pale in argent (silver) and gules (red) color, the 2nd and 3rd are of or color.

Quarterly Ordinary

The Quarterly Ordinary has the 1st and 4rth per pale in argent (silver) and gules (red) color, the 2nd…

The Sable Ordinary has a chief engrailed in or color, and a per fesse engrailed in or and sable (black).

Sable Ordinary

The Sable Ordinary has a chief engrailed in or color, and a per fesse engrailed in or and sable (black).

"ORLE. A subordinate ordinary composed of double lines going round the shield at some distance from its edge; it is half the width of the bordure." -Hall, 1862

Orle

"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 whereon it is placed." -Hall, 1862

Orle Ordinary

"Azure, an orle, argent. An orle is a perforated inescutcheon, and usually takes the shape of the shield…

Ornate divider with bird on shield

Ornate divider

Ornate divider with bird on shield

"Azure, a pale or. PALE. One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two perpendicular lines drawn from the base to the chief. The pale occupies one third of the shield." -Hall, 1862

Pale

"Azure, a pale or. PALE. One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two perpendicular lines drawn from…

"Or, a pale purpure, flory and counter flory gules. COUNTER FLORY. Any ordinary ornamented with fleurs-de-luce: the points of the flowers run alternately in a contrary direction." -Hall, 1862

Pale Counter Flory

"Or, a pale purpure, flory and counter flory gules. COUNTER FLORY. Any ordinary ornamented with fleurs-de-luce:…

"Argent, a pale azure engrailed. ENGRAILED. Any object being edged with small semi-circles, the points turning outwards, is said to be engrailed." -Hall, 1862

Pale Engrailed

"Argent, a pale azure engrailed. ENGRAILED. Any object being edged with small semi-circles, the points…

"Azure, a pale, or. The pale is an honourable ordinary, consisting of two perpendicular lines drawn from the top to the base of the escutcheon, and contains one third of the width of the field." -Hall, 1862

Pale Ordinary

"Azure, a pale, or. The pale is an honourable ordinary, consisting of two perpendicular lines drawn…

"Azure, on a pale, walled on each side with three battlements argent, an endorse gules. WALLED. A term sometimes used in Heraldry. When an ordinary is edged or guarded by an embattled wall." -Hall, 1862

Pale Walled

"Azure, on a pale, walled on each side with three battlements argent, an endorse gules. WALLED. A term…

"Azure, on a pall argent, four crosses fitchy sable, in chief a cross pattee of the second. PALL. A scarf in the shape of the letter Y, forming part of the vesture of a Roman Catholic prelate. It is introduced as the principal bearing of the archbishops of Canterbury, Armagh, and Dublin." -Hall, 1862

Pall

"Azure, on a pall argent, four crosses fitchy sable, in chief a cross pattee of the second. PALL. A…

"The Palladium." —Bulfinch, 1897

The Palladium

"The Palladium." —Bulfinch, 1897

"PALLET. A diminutive of the pale." -Hall, 1862

Pallet

"PALLET. A diminutive of the pale." -Hall, 1862

"Argent, a pallet, gules. The pale has a diminutive called the pallet, which is one half the width of the pale." -Hall, 1862

Pallet Ordinary

"Argent, a pallet, gules. The pale has a diminutive called the pallet, which is one half the width of…

"Paly of four, argent and gules. PALY. A field divided by perpendicular lines into several equal parts of metal and tincture interchangeably disposed." -Hall, 1862

Paly

"Paly of four, argent and gules. PALY. A field divided by perpendicular lines into several equal parts…

"A round shield, three feet in diameter, carried by the celites in the Roman army. Though small, compared with the Clipeus, it was so strongly made as to be a very effectual protection. This was probably owing to the use of iron in its framework. The parma was also worn by the cavalry. We find the term parma often applied to the target (Cetra), which was also a small round shield, and therefore very similar to the parma. The preceding cut represents a votive parma, embossed and gilt, representing onits border, as is supposed the taking of Rome by the Gauls under Brennus, and its recovery by Camillus." — Smith, 1873

Parma

"A round shield, three feet in diameter, carried by the celites in the Roman army. Though small, compared…

"PARTED PER PALE AND PER BEND SINISTER Counterchanged, or and gules. PARTY or PARTED signifies divided, and applies to the several parts of an escutcheon parted by a line, which always runs in the direction of one or more of the honourable ordinaries." -Hall, 1862

Parted Per Pale and Per Bend Sinister

"PARTED PER PALE AND PER BEND SINISTER Counterchanged, or and gules. PARTY or PARTED signifies divided,…

"PARTED PER PALE AND PER CHEVRON Gules and or, counter changed. PARTY or PARTED signifies divided, and applies to the several parts of an escutcheon parted by a line, which always runs in the direction of one or more of the honourable ordinaries." -Hall, 1862

Parted Per Pale and Per Chevron

"PARTED PER PALE AND PER CHEVRON Gules and or, counter changed. PARTY or PARTED signifies divided, and…

"Party per fess, engrailed, argent and gules. PARTY PER FESS. A shield parted in the centre by an horizontal line through the fess point." -Hall, 1862

Party Per Fess Engrailed

"Party per fess, engrailed, argent and gules. PARTY PER FESS. A shield parted in the centre by an horizontal…

"Parted per pale, gules and argent. PARTY PER PALE. This signifies a shield parted by a perpendicular line down the centre, so that one shield may contain two coats of arms." -Hall, 1862

Party Per Pale

"Parted per pale, gules and argent. PARTY PER PALE. This signifies a shield parted by a perpendicular…

A shield or escutcheon emblazoned with the fur, pean, represented by or (gold) ermine spots on sable (black).

Pean Shield Fur

A shield or escutcheon emblazoned with the fur, pean, represented by or (gold) ermine spots on sable…

The heraldic shield of the family of Pelham, after its augmentation.

Shield of Pelham

The heraldic shield of the family of Pelham, after its augmentation.

"Argent, a pelican's head, erased, vulning. VULNING. Any creature in the act of wounding itself." -Hall, 1862

Pelican Vulning

"Argent, a pelican's head, erased, vulning. VULNING. Any creature in the act of wounding itself." -Hall,…

"A small shield, Iphicrates, observing that the ancient Clipeus was cumbrous and inconvenient, introduced among the Greeks a much smaller and lighter shield, from which those who bore it took the name of peltastae. It consisted principally of a frame of wood or wicker-work, covered with skin or leather. An elegant form of the pelta is exhibited in the preceting cut, representing Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons, in the act of offering aid to Priam." — Smith, 1873

Pelta

"A small shield, Iphicrates, observing that the ancient Clipeus was cumbrous and inconvenient, introduced…

The Seal of the State of Pennsylvania. The seal shows a shield which has a ship, a plow, and sheaves of wheat. This represents commerce, labor, and agriculture.

Seal of Pennsylvania

The Seal of the State of Pennsylvania. The seal shows a shield which has a ship, a plow, and sheaves…

"Argent, a pheon proper. PHEON. A missile instrument with a barbed head, thrown from a cross bow." -Hall, 1862

Pheon

"Argent, a pheon proper. PHEON. A missile instrument with a barbed head, thrown from a cross bow." -Hall,…

"The barbed head of a spear or arrow, engrailed on the inner side. The point of the spear is placed in base."—Aveling, 1891

Pheon

"The barbed head of a spear or arrow, engrailed on the inner side. The point of the spear is placed…

The heraldic shield of Philippa of Hainault, the Queen consort of Edward III of England.

Shield of Queen Philippa

The heraldic shield of Philippa of Hainault, the Queen consort of Edward III of England.

"Argent, a pile, purpure. PILE. An angular figure like a wedge, formed by lines running from the dexter and sinister chief to the middle base." -Hall, 1862

Pile

"Argent, a pile, purpure. PILE. An angular figure like a wedge, formed by lines running from the dexter…

"Argent, a pile, azure. The pile is formed like a wedge, and may be borne wavy, engrailed, &c.; it issues generally from the chief, and extends towards the base, but it may be borne in bend or issue from the base." -Hall, 1862

Pile Ordinary

"Argent, a pile, azure. The pile is formed like a wedge, and may be borne wavy, engrailed, &c.; it issues…

Albrecht Dürer's Pirkheimer Border is a woodcut that was created by German artist Albrecht Dürer in 1513. It has a design of a combination of ribbons, grapes, columns and angels holding a shield at the bottom. A woodcut is created by carving an image on a wooden block and rolling ink over that surface, and then printing it on paper.

Albrecht Dürer's Pirkheinmer Border

Albrecht Dürer's Pirkheimer Border is a woodcut that was created by German artist Albrecht Dürer…

The heraldic shield of Henry Plantagenet of Bolingbroke, 1399.

Shield of Henry Plantagenet

The heraldic shield of Henry Plantagenet of Bolingbroke, 1399.

"The Norman pointed shield is generally used in Heraldic paintings in ecclesiastical buildings." -Hall, 1862

Pointed Shield

"The Norman pointed shield is generally used in Heraldic paintings in ecclesiastical buildings." -Hall,…

"Armorists distinguish several points in the escutcheon in order to determine exactly the position of the bearings or charges. A, the dexter chief. B, the precise middle chief. C, the sinister chief. D, the honour point. E, the fess point. F, the nombril point. G, the dexter base. H, the precise middle base. I, the sinister base." -Hall, 1862

Points of the Shield

"Armorists distinguish several points in the escutcheon in order to determine exactly the position of…

"POMMELLED. The pommel of the sword is the round ball or knob at the end of the hilt of a sword." -Hall, 1862

Pommelled

"POMMELLED. The pommel of the sword is the round ball or knob at the end of the hilt of a sword." -Hall,…