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1. badge, n. View full entry 1440
...Originally: a heraldic symbol worn as an identifying mark by a knight and his retainers (= cognizance5a; sometimes more fully badge of arms). In later use: any...
2. † bebally, adj. View full entry 1486
...Said of a shield: = party per palepale6b, i.e. divided into two parts by a vertical line....
3. Burgundian, adj. and n. View full entry 1578
...Belonging to Burgundy (in any of the senses of the name). Burgonian cross = St Andrew's CrossSt Andrewb. Burgundian hay: = Burgundy hay...
4. Catherine wheel, n. View full entry 1584
...The figure of a wheel with spikes projecting from its circumference (in reference to the legend of St. Catherine's martyrdom). esp. in Heraldry....
5. † ˈengislet, n. View full entry 1486
6. enhendee, adj. View full entry ?a1664
...A spurious word found in some heraldic and other Dicts. in the phrase cross enhendee (given as synonym of cross potenee) where the adj. appears to be a...
7. † gerate, v. View full entry 1562
...trans. To powder or strew (a coat) with minor charges....
8. † gorge, n.2 View full entry 1562
...A bearing known only from the drawing given by Leigh; its interpretation was disputed (see quot. 1562). ...
9. † gritty, adj.2 View full entry 1486
...Of a field: Composed equally of a metal and a colour....
10. guze, n. View full entry 1562
...A roundle of a sanguine tint....
11. gyronnetty, adj. View full entry ?a1900
...A spurious word in some recent Dicts.; an alteration (after gyron) of gironnetté, given as a French word in heraldic dicts. with the explanation ‘Finished at the top...
12. † ˈhabick, n. View full entry 1660
...‘An instrument used in dressing cloth’ (Cussans Handbk. Heraldry 116)....
13. ink, n.2 View full entry 1572
...orig. An iron cross set in the lower face of the upper millstone, and serving to poise it on the spindle which turns it; a mill-rind. As a charge in ...
14. Irish, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry OE
...Of a person: native to Ireland; that is a citizen of Ireland; (also) descended from emigrants from Ireland to another country, esp. the United States or Australia (cf. Irish-American, ...
15. † ˈlentally, n. View full entry 1486
...(See quots.)...
16. liver, n.3 View full entry 1668
...A name arbitrarily given to: the bird (heraldically identified as a cormorant) represented in the arms of the City of Liverpool. Also liver bird....
17. Lorraine, n. View full entry 1830
...= cross of Lorrainecross18a....
18. Malta, n. View full entry 1611
...attrib. Of or designating the Knights of Malta (cf. Maltese1b). See Malta cross1b. Obs....
19. mateley, adj. View full entry 1688
...= urdee1. Also as postmodifier....
20. meirre, n. and adj. View full entry 1562
...A heraldic fur; app. a variety of potent or vair. Cf. potent4, vairObs....
