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Device :: Device (n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing..

Fecial :: Fecial (a.) Pertaining to heralds, declarations of war, and treaties of peace; as, fecial law..

Cross :: Cross (n.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above..

Prophesy :: Prophesy (v. t.) To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.

Subordinate :: Subordinary (n.) One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary.

Snow :: Snow (n.) Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes..

Armorial :: Armorial (a.) Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family..

Purflew :: Purflew (n.) A border of any heraldic fur.

Herald :: Herald (v. t.) To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in..

Herald :: Herald (n.) A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame..

Device :: Device (n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance..

Emblazonry :: Emblazonry (n.) The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment..

Herald :: Herald (n.) A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.

Herald :: Herald (n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character..

Nebuly :: Nebuly (a.) Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded.

Membered :: Membered (a.) Having legs of a different tincture from that of the body; -- said of a bird in heraldic representations.

Sea Horse :: Sea horse () A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus..

Motto :: Motto (n.) A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievment..

Cleche :: Cleche (a.) Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided..

Fleur-de-lis :: Fleur-de-lis (n.) A conventional flower suggested by the iris, and having a form which fits it for the terminal decoration of a scepter, the ornaments of a crown, etc. It is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of France..

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