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1. banderol(e | bandrol | bannerol, n. View full entry 1562
...A long narrow flag, with cleft end, flying from the mast-heads of ships, carried in battle, etc....
2. barrulet, n. View full entry 1562
...The fourth part of a bar, the half of a closet....
3. barruly, adj. View full entry 1562
...(A field) Crossed by barrulets or small bars....
4. † baste, n.2 View full entry 1562
...App. corruption of base5; cf. bast...
5. batoon, n. View full entry 1562
...A stout staff or stick used as a weapon, a cudgel, club, truncheon; = baston1, baton1....
6. bevel, adj. and n.1 View full entry 1562
...Heraldry. Of a line: Broken so as to have two equal acute alternate angles; composed of two parallel portions joined at acute angles by an intermediate piece....
7. † champain, n. View full entry 1562
...Heraldry. A broken or deflected line, sometimes on only one side of an ordinary; it is sometimes vairé, sometimes curved or enarched....
8. chapournet, n. View full entry 1562
...In a coat of arms, a chief divided by a bow-shaped line, understood to represent a hood....
9. counter-ˈquartered, adj. View full entry 1562
...Of a charge (such as a cross): Borne counterchanged upon a field quarterly....
10. deˈgraded, adj.2 View full entry 1562
...Of a cross: Set on steps, or having step-like extensions at the ends connecting it with the sides of the shield....
11. dexter, adj., n.2, and adv. View full entry 1562
...Belonging to or situated on the right side of a person, animal, or object worn on the body; right; esp. in Heraldry the opposite of sinister...
12. † ˈdiapre, adj. View full entry 1562
...= diaperedb....
13. † emˈblazon, n. View full entry 1562
...The delineation or heraldic description of armorial bearings....
14. † emˈblazure, n. View full entry 1562
...= emblazoning...
15. † eˈmeade, v. View full entry 1562
...trans. To halve, divide in half....
16. † eˈnaluron, n. View full entry 1562
...A bordure charged with birds. (According to Sir G. Mackenzie and Porny the word is an adv., = ‘orlé, or in manner of a bordure’, the use by English heralds...
17. † enˈtoire, adj. (n. and adv.) View full entry 1562
...(See quots.)...
18. † enˈtrailed, adj. View full entry 1562
...Entwined, interwoven....
19. enurny, adj. View full entry 1562
...Of a bordure: Charged with beasts. By some writers improperly used as n. for a charge of this kind upon a bordure....
20. ˈermines, n. View full entry 1562
...A ‘fur’ forming the reverse of ermine, i.e. with white ‘spots’ on a black ground....
