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2 hands clasped

4 crescents joined millsailwise

abased

abbot

acorn

acorned

addorsed, back-to-back

alerion

allumee (colour of eyes)

amphiptere

amphisbaena

anchor

anchor plate

angled

annulet

annulets

antelope

antlers, attires

appointés

arched

arched and reversed

arched in base

archer

argent, silver

armed

armed (teeth)

arranged, ordered, or transposed

arrow

arrow head

at speed

attired (stag)

axe

azure

ball

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

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

bezant-roundel

billet

bird

blackbird

boar

boar head

boar-spear

bordered

bordure

boreas

bretessed

bridge

broad pile

broadsword

broken

buckle

bull

burely of 12

bust

byzantine cross

caduceus

caltrap

canting arms

canting arms

canton

canton

canton charged with another

cantoned

caparison

carnation

cart-wheel

castle

cat

cauldron

celtic cross

cerberus

chalice

chapé

charged with an orle

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

concentric rings

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 ansated, ankh

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 indented

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

crumbling

curry-comb

curved-recurved

dagger

dancy, dancetty

defamed (lion without tail)

delf, square billet

dexter

dexter arm

diamond

diapered

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

embowed (fish)

embowed chapé

embowed chaussé

embrassé

enflamed

engrailed

engrailed

enquiry (arms of)

enty

eradicated (tree)

erased (animal’s head)

erect

ermine

ermine spot

ermined

escallop

escarbuncle

escarre

ewe

external devices

fabric wreath

facetted

fangs

feathered

fern

fess

fess point

fess-pale

fillet cross

fimbriated

finned

finned (tail)

fire-steel, furison

fish

fishhook

flail

flambant, flammant, flaming

flank

flanked

flanked

flaunches (rounded flanks)

fleur de lys

fleur de lys couped

fleury

forked

fountain, roundel-fountain

fox

fret

fretty

fretty

fructed

full moon

fur

fusil

fusilly

galley

garb

garnished

girdled (barrel)

gironny

golden fleece

gonfanon

grady

grenade, fire-ball

greslier, hunting horn

greyhound

gridiron

griffin, gryphon

guidon

gules

gurges

gusset

gyron

gyronny of 6

gyronny of 8

halberd

hand of justice

hare

harnessed, briddled

harpoon, pole pike

harpy

harrow

hawk’s bell

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

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

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

mouse

mullet (of 5 points)

mullet of 6 points

mullet pierced

naiant (swimming)

nailed

naissant

narrow bordure

narrow chief

narrowed

naturalistic fountain

nebuly

nettle leave

nimbed

nombril

notched

oak

of the same, of the first...

on the dexter

on the sinister

open hand

or, gold

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

pamé

panther

papelonne

party per chevron

passant, trippant

pavilion

paviour's ram

pean

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

rayonny

rays (x-pointed star)

rear-regardant

rearing

recercely

redorte

reversed

riband, fillet

ribbon, motto-scroll

rider, knight, horseman

rinceaux

ringed

rising (bird)

rod of Asclepius

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

saltirewise

saltorel

sarcely

saw blade

scale

scallop shell

schnecke

schnecke

scimitar

scissors, shears

scythe

scythe-blade

seahorse

seeded (rose)

sejant

semy of

serpent

set in ...

set in ...

sewed

shafted

shakefork

shears

sheep

shuttle

sickle

sinister

sinister arm

smoke

snail

snake tail

snake, wyvern

spade

spade, sword

spear, javelin

spindle

spur

square trellised

squirrel

stag's massacre

stag, deer

stalked

statant

stole

stringed (horn)

sun

supported

supporters

supporters

supporters

surcharged

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

tiara

tierced bendwise

tierced fesswise

tierced palewise

tierced pallwise

tierced per bend sinister

timbre

topped

torse

tower

trefoil, threefoil

trellissed, latticed

tressure

triangle

triskelion

turreted

tusked

twig

umbrated, entrailed (outline)

unguled

unharnessed

unicorn

urdy

vair

vairy

vert

vested

vetu, a lozenge throughout

vigilance

vine

vine-slip

viroled (horn)

voided

vol, pair of wings

vulny, piety (pelican)

wake and ormond knot

wall

water lily (leaf)

wavy

wavy, undy

well

wild man

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