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1. abased, adj. View full entry 1554
...Made lower in rank, condition, or character; humbled, humiliated, degraded....
2. 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....
3. adumbration, n. View full entry 1531
...Shading, shadowing; shade, obscuration; (also) a shadow....
4. allusive, adj. View full entry 1593
...Symbolic, metaphorical, figurative. Obs....
5. annulet, n. View full entry 1572
...A little ring....
6. argent, n. and adj. View full entry c1500
...The metal silver. arch. or poet.spume of argent (Latin argenti spuma): litharge of silver....
7. armorist, n. View full entry 1586
...One who is skilled in heraldry, or in blazoning coats of arms....
8. assessed, adj. View full entry 1552
...Fixed or apportioned by assessment. assessed taxes...
9. 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....
10. barbed, adj.1 View full entry a1529
...Bearded. Obs.rare....
11. † ˈbarret, n.1 View full entry 1577
...A little bar....
12. barrulet, n. View full entry 1562
...The fourth part of a bar, the half of a closet....
13. barruly, adj. View full entry 1562
...(A field) Crossed by barrulets or small bars....
14. † baste, n.2 View full entry 1562
...App. corruption of base5; cf. bast...
15. baton, n. View full entry c1550
...A staff or stick used as a weapon, sometimes also of iron or iron-tipped; a club, cudgel, or truncheon; = baston1. Obs. in general sense, in which...
16. batoon, n. View full entry 1562
...A stout staff or stick used as a weapon, a cudgel, club, truncheon; = baston1, baton1....
17. beaked, adj. View full entry 1572
...Furnished with a beak (or peak)....
18. bendlet, n. View full entry 1572
...A smaller bend, containing a sixth part of the field....
19. 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....
20. billeté | billetté | billetty, n. View full entry 1572
...Heraldry. Charged with billets: see quot. 1766....