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1. addorsed, adj. View full entry 1572
...Of two emblems: facing back to back on a shield; (of a shield) characterized by such a design. Freq. as postmodifier....
2. annulet, n. View full entry 1572
...A little ring....
3. beaked, adj. View full entry 1572
...Furnished with a beak (or peak)....
4. bendlet, n. View full entry 1572
...A smaller bend, containing a sixth part of the field....
5. billeté | billetté | billetty, n. View full entry 1572
...Heraldry. Charged with billets: see quot. 1766....
6. botoné | botonée | botony, adj. View full entry 1572
...Having an ornament of three knobs or bud-like projections resembling a trefoil leaf; hence sometimes called trefoiled or treffled....
7. ˈbretessé | bretessee | bretessy, adj. View full entry 1572
...Having embattlements on each side....
8. caboched | caboshed | cabossed, adj. View full entry 1572
...Borne (as the head of a stag, bull, or other beast) full-faced, and cut off close behind the ears so as to show no part of the neck; trunked....
9. † ˈchalcelet, n. View full entry 1572
10. chevronel, n. View full entry 1572
...A bent bar on the escutcheon half the breadth of the chevron....
11. clavie, adj. View full entry 1572
...Key-shaped. Also clavied...
12. comˈponé | compony, adj. View full entry 1572
...Composed of a row of squares of two alternate tinctures; called also gobonated....
13. cost, n.4 View full entry 1572
...= cotise; but sometimes differentiated from it: cf. 1610....
14. cotise, n. View full entry 1572
...An ordinary, in breadth the fourth part of a bend; usually occurring in couples, one on each side of a bend, fess, or other charge; cf. cost...
15. cotise, v. View full entry 1572
...trans. To border (a bend, fess, chevron, etc.) on both sides with cotises, barrulets, etc. See also cotise2)....
16. † ˌcounter-ˈbattled, adj. View full entry 1572
...= counter-embattled...
17. counter-ˈcoloured | counter-ˈcolored, adj. View full entry 1572
...Having the opposite parts of different tinctures; counterchanged....
18. † counter-comˈponed, adj. View full entry 1572
...= counter-compony...
19. counterfleury | counterflory, adj. View full entry 1572
...Of an ordinary (esp. a tressure): Having flowers on each side set opposite each other in pairs. (Cf. counter-flowered)...
20. counter-ˈpotencé | counter-ˈpotency, adj. View full entry 1572
...Having the figures called ‘potents’ (shaped like the heads of crutches) arranged as in countervair...
