In heraldry, a crest is a component of a coat of arms. It is a figure (or group of figures), often but not always a beast of some kind, depicted atop the helmet placed above the shield. The crest has been traditionally used by men only, with the exception of... Crest | In heraldry, a compartment is a design placed under the shield, usually rocks, a grassy mount, or some sort of other landscape upon which the supporters are depicted as standing (a compartment without supporters is possible but practically unknown, with the exception of South Australia[1]). It is sometimes said... Compartment | In heraldry the background of the shield is called the field . The field is usually composed of one or more tinctures (colours or metals) or furs. In extremely rare cases, the field is not a tincture, but may be a landscape. Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, in his Art of Heraldry... Field | A chief enarched indented throughout in the arms of Sawbridgeworth A fess wavy in the arms of Welwyn Hatfield A chief embattled in the arms of Letchworth The lines used to divide and vary fields and charges in heraldry are by default straight, but may have many different shapes. (Care... Line | In heraldry, mantling is drapery depicted tied to the helmet above the shield. It forms a backdrop for the shield. Mantling is blazoned mantled x, doubled [lined] y; the cloth has two sides, one of a heraldic colour (red, blue, green, black, or purple) and the other of a heraldic... Mantling | In heraldry, the shield is the principal portion of a heraldic achievement or coat of arms. Figures and patterns are depicted emblazoned upon the shield in many different arrangements. The shields of male armigers are commonly displayed on a shape known as an escutcheon, based on the shape of Medieval... Shield | In heraldry, supporters are figures placed on either side of the shield and depicted holding it up. These figures may be real or imaginary animals, human figures, or (more rarely) plants or inanimate objects. This example, the Coat of Arms of Prince Edward Island, uses two foxes as supporters. Supporters... Supporters | Tinctures are the colours used to blazon coats of arms in heraldry. Basic tinctures There are seven tinctures, consisting of two metals (light tinctures) and five colours (dark tinctures). * Or is usually spelt with a capital letter (Gules, a fess Or) so as not to confuse it with the conjunction... Tincture

For the rock band, see Argent (band). Heraldry Tinctures In heraldry, argent is the tincture with the colour silver, very frequently depicted as white and supposed almost to be interchangeable with it. However, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies argued extensively in his book The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopaedia of Armory... Argent | Tinctures are the colours used to blazon coats of arms in heraldry. Basic tinctures There are seven tinctures, consisting of two metals (light tinctures) and five colours (dark tinctures). * Or is usually spelt with a capital letter (Gules, a fess Or) so as not to confuse it with the conjunction... Azure | Carnation | For other uses, see Sky (disambiguation). A typical daytime sky. The sky is often defined as the place a person sees when he or she looks up from the earth. Although almost everyone has seen it, the sky is hard to define precisely. The concept of the sky, as it... Celeste | The word gray is also spelled grey: see Grey for topics with this spelling. Gray or grey is a color created by mixing white and black in different proportions. In heraldry, the very rare tincture grey is more usually called cendrée, though it is very, very rarely called grey... Cendrée | Red re-directs here; for alternate uses see Red (disambiguation) Red is a color at the lowest frequencies of light discernible by the human eye. Red light has a wavelength of roughly 700 nm. Oxygenated blood is red due to the presence of hemoglobin. Red light is the first to... Gules | Species Morus alba - White Mulberry Morus australis - Chinese Mulberry Morus indica - Indian Mulberry Morus microphylla - Texas Mulberry Morus nigra - Black Mulberry Morus rubra - Red Mulberry Morus serrata - Himalayan Mulberry For other meanings, see Mulberry (disambiguation). Mulberry refers both to the mulberry tree and to the fruit of that tree. It... Murrey | General Name, Symbol, Number Gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11 (IB), 6, d Density, Hardness 19300 kg/m3, 2.5 Appearance Metallic yellow Atomic properties Atomic weight 196.96655 amu Atomic radius (calc.) 135 (174) pm Covalent radius 144 pm van der Waals radius 166... Or | Heraldry Tinctures In heraldry, Purpure is a tincture, more or less the equivalent of the colour purple. It is one of the five dark tinctures and portrayed in black and white by lines at a clockwise 45 degree angle. It has never been as common as the other colours, and... Purpure | Tinctures are the colours used to blazon coats of arms in heraldry. Basic tinctures There are seven tinctures, consisting of two metals (light tinctures) and five colours (dark tinctures). * Or is usually spelt with a capital letter (Gules, a fess Or) so as not to confuse it with the conjunction... Sable | Red blood cells (erythrocytes) are present in the blood and help carry oxygen to the rest of the cells in the body Blood is a circulating tissue composed of fluid plasma and cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets). Medical terms related to blood often begin in hemo- or... Sanguine | Tan can mean several things: tan is shorthand in mathematics for the tangent trigonometric function. Tanning is the process of making leather from hides. Tan is ground oak bark used in tanning leather. Sun tanning is the browning of light-colored skin by exposure of the bare skin to sunshine... Tenné | Green is a color seen commonly in nature. Plants are green because they contain chlorophyll. Green light has a wavelength of around 540 nm and is one of the additive primary colors, the complement of magenta. Many artists, however, continue to use a traditional colour theory in which the complement... Vert

A blue-and-white striped bend (a bend barry wavy argent and azure), in the arms of Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council In heraldry, a bend is a colored band that runs from the upper left (as seen by the viewer) corner of the shield to the lower right. Writers differ... Bend | This page is about the pattern or symbol called a chevron. For information on the global energy company, see ChevronTexaco. A chevron (also spelled cheveron, especially in older documents) is a V-shaped pattern. The word is usually used in reference to a kind of fret in architecture, or to... Chevron | Chief | This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page. A cross is a geometrical figure consisting... Cross | A fess is a term used in heraldry to describe a charge on a coat of arms that takes the form of a band running from the left to the right side of the shield, centered from top to bottom. Writers disagree in how much of the shields surface... Fess | Fillet | Flaunches, in the arms of the town of Harlow A flaunch, in heraldry, is (arguably) an ordinary, one of two (as the flaunch is never borne singly) semicircles protruding into the field from the sides of the shield. While supposedly the diminutives of flaunches are flasques and voiders (which likewise... Flaunch | A pall is a Y shaped heraldic charge. An example of a (fesswise) pall is the green portion of the Flag of South Africa. A pall that stops short of the shields edges is called a shakefork or pairle. Traditionally, a pall on a shield often indicates a connection... Pall | The Pale or the English Pale comprised a region in a radius of 20 miles around Dublin which the English in Ireland gradually fortified against incursion from Gaelic Ireland. From the thirteenth century onwards the Anglo-Norman invasion in the rest of Ireland at first faltered then waned, allowing Gaelic... Pale | Quarter | The arms of St Albans: a gold saltire on a blue field A saltire is an X-shaped figure in heraldry. It usually occupies the entire field in which it is placed. A saltorel is a narrow saltire; the term is usually defined as one-half the width of the... Saltire