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2 hands clasped
4 crescents joined millsailwise
abased
acorn
acorned
addorsed, back-to-back
alerion
allumee (colour of eyes)
amphisbaena
anchor
anchor plate
annulet
annulets
ansated cross, ankh
antlers, attires
appointés
arched
arched and reversed
armed
armed (teeth)
arranged, ordered, or transposed
arrow
arrow head
at speed
attired (stag)
axe
azure
banded
banner
bar geme
barbed (rose)
barn owl
barrulet
barrulet
barrulet, closet
barry (of 6 pieces)
barry of 4 pieces
basilisk, cockatrice
baston couped
bat
battle axe
battle cry, slogan
beaked
bear
bearded, wattled
bedeviled
bee
bell
bell (small and globular)
belled
bend
bend sinister
bendlet
bendlet couped
bendlet sinister
bendlets
bendy (of 14 pieces)
bendy (of 6 pieces)
bendy of 4 pieces
bendy sinister
bendy sinister counterchanged
bezant
billet
bird
blackbird
boar
boar head
boar-spear
bordure
bretessed
bridge
broad pile
broadsword
broken
buckle
bull
burely of 12
bust
byzantine cross
caduceus
caltrap
canting arms
canton
canton
canton charged with another
cantoned
caparison
carnation
cart-wheel
castle
cauldron
celtic cross
chalice
chapé
charging
chaussé
checky
checky of 9 pieces
chessrook
chevron
chevron and overall a chief
chevronel
chevronny
chief
chimera
cinquefoil
clapper
claricord, clarion, rest
claws
cloud
clover
collared
columbine
column
combatant
combed
comet
compony
concentric annulets
conjoined
conjoined in fess
contourned
coquatrice
corded
counter-barry
counter-chevronny
counter-embattled
counter-ermines
counter-paly
counter-quartered
counter-vair
counterchanged
couped
couped at one end only
couped dexter or sinister half, dimidated
couped in chief
covered
covered cup
cow
coward (lion with its tail between its legs)
cramp
crampet
cramponned
crancelin
crane
créquier
crescent
cresset, beacon
crest
crined
cross
cross anchory, cross of hope
cross barby
cross couped
cross crosslet
cross fitchy
cross fleuretty
cross formy or patty
cross fourchy
cross fourchy
cross fretty
cross gironny
cross gringolee
Cross knotted
cross of Toulouse
cross patriarchal
cross patty pointed
cross pomy
cross potent throughout
cross raguly
cross trefly
crossbow
crosslets
crow, raven
crown
crowned
crozier
curry-comb
dagger
dancy, dancetty
deer
defamed (lion without tail)
delf, square billet
dexter
dexter arm
diamond
diapered
diminutives of the ordinaries
disjointed
dismembered, disjointed
displayed
dog, hound
doloire, broad-axe
dolphin
double-headed
dove
dovetailed
dragon, wyvern
dragonnee
duck
eagle
eaglet
eagle’s leg
ear (plant)
edged
emasculated (animal)
embattled
embattled in base
embowed
embrassé
enflamed
engrailed
engrailed
enquiry (arms of)
enty
eradicated (tree)
erased (animal’s head)
erect
ermine
ermine spot
ermined
escallop
escarbuncle
ewe
external devices
fabric wreath
facetted
fangs
feathered
fern
fess
fess point
fess-pale
fillet cross
finned
finned (tail)
fire-steel, furison
fish
fishhook
flail
flambant, flammant, flaming
flank
flanked
flanked
flanks (rounded)
fleur de lys
fleur de lys couped
fleury
forked
fountain, roundel-fountain
fox
fret
fretty
fructed
full moon
fur
fusil
fusilly
galley
garb
garnished
girdled (barrel)
gironny
gold
gonfanon
grady
grenade, fire-ball
greslier, hunting horn
greyhound
gridiron
griffin, gryphon
guidon
gules
gusset
gyron
gyronny of 6
gyronny of 8
halberd
hand of justice
hare
harnessed, briddled
harpoon
harpy
harrow
hazelnuts (group of three)
head caboshed
helmet
helmet
hemp-bray, barnacle
hexagramme
hexagramme
hillock, coupeau
hilted
hippogryph
holding
Holy Spirit (dove)
honor point
hooded (falcon)
hook
horn
horned, armed
horse
horse-brays
horseshoe
hunting horn
hydra
ibex
in chief
in chief
in his pride (peacock)
increscent
indented
indented
indented
inescucheon
interlaced, interwoven, braced
invected
inverted
issuant
issuing
issuing from dexter flank
issuing from sinister flank
Jerusalem cross
jessed (with leash, falcon)
jousting lance
kettle, morion, soldier's hat
key
knotted, nowed
label
lamb
lance head
langued (birds and domestic animals)
langued (wild animals)
latin cross
leaved
leopard rampant
Lictor's fasces
lime tree
lion
lion passant
lion passant guardant, leopard
lioncel
lobster, crayfish
lozenge
lozengy
mace
mallet
Maltese cross
man head
maned
maniple
mantle
mantling
marined
martlet
mascle
masoned
membered
mermaid
mill wheel
millrind
millrind (fer de moline)
mitre
moor’s head
moose
motto
mound
mound
mount in base
mountain with three hillocks
mullet (of 5 points)
mullet of 6 points
mullet pierced
naiant (swimming)
nailed
naissant
narrow bordure
narrow chief
naturalistic fountain
nebuly
nettle leave
nimbed
nombril
oak
on the dexter
on the sinister
open hand
orle
osprey
ouroboros
over all
owl
ox
paillé
pale
pale and chief
pall
pall reversed
pallet, endorse
palm
paly
paly (of 6 pieces)
paly of 4 pieces
panther
papelonne
party per chevron
passant
pavilion
paviour's ram
pegasus
pentalpha
per bend
per bend abased
per bend sinister
per fess
per fess the base per pale
per pale
per pale and the sinister per fess
pheon, broad-arrow head
phoenix
pierced
pile
pile issuing from the base
pilgrim’s staff
placed (helmet)
placed in
ploughshare
plumetty
pointed at each end
points
pomegranate
pommeted, pommy
port colour
portcullis
portcullised
proboscis, trunk
proper, naturel
pruning knife
purpure
quarter
quartered per saltire
quartered, quarterly
quatrefoil
ragged staff
ragged, raguly
rake
ram
rampant
rampant
rampant
rays (x-pointed star)
rear-regardant
rearing
recercely
redorte
reversed
riband, fillet
ribbon, motto-scroll
rider, knight, horseman
rinceaux
ringed
rising (bird)
rooster with a lifted right leg
rooster, cock
rose
rose bush
roundel
roundel per fess
rows
rustre
sable
sabre
sail colour of a ship or attired (person)
Saint Andrew’s cross
salamander
saliant
saltire
saltired couped
saltirewise
sarcely
scale
scallop shell
scimitar
scissors, shears
scythe
scythe-blade
seahorse
seeded (rose)
sejant
semy of
serpent
set in ...
set in ...
sewed
shaft colour
shakefork
shears
sheep
shuttle
silver
sinister
sinister arm
smoke
snail
snake tail
snake, wyvern
spade
spade, sword
spear
spindle
spur
squirrel
stag's massacre
stalked
statant
stringed (horn)
sun
supported
supporters
supporters
supporters
surmounted with a crosslet
surmounting, debruised, oppressed
swallowing
swan
swastika, fylfot
tassel, fioccho
tau cross
terrace in base
terrace in base abased
three
three bars couped
thunderbolt
tierced bendwise
tierced fesswise
tierced palewise
tierced pallwise
tierced per bend sinister
timbre
topped
tower
trefoil, threefoil
trellissed, latticed
tressure
triskelion
turreted
tusked
twig
ubrated, entrailed (outline)
unguled
unharnessed
unicorn
urdy
vair
vairy
vert
vested
vetu, a lozenge throughout
vigilance
vine
vine-slip
viroled (horn)
vol, pair of wings
vulny, piety (pelican)
wake and ormond knot
wall
water lily (leaf)
wavy, undy
well
wing
winged
with a male member
with bell
with guidon (lance)
with hat
with human face (crescent or sun)
with mouth piece (horn)
with trappers
with trunk
with window
without claws
without tail tongue and claws
wolf
wolf-hook
wreathed (moor's head)
wyvern
yoke
