This page gathers the 487 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Monarchy”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 2 of 5: from “check” to “ermine”.
- check adj Checky, i.e. chequy.
- cherry blossom noun A stylized depiction of the blossom of the cherry tree, as used in Japanese mon.
- chevron noun A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
- chief noun The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal…
- cinquefoil noun A stylized flower or leaf with five lobes.
- clarion noun A charge thought to represent a type of wind instrument, a keyboard instrument like a spinet, or perhaps a rest used by a knight to support…
- cleché adj Having ends which flare out (like a cross patté) before tapering back to a point (urdé).
- close adj With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- closed adj Synonym of close.
- closet noun An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
- coat armour noun The escutcheon of a person or family, with its charges, mantling, crest, supporters, motto, etc.
- coat of arms noun Hereditary designs and symbols depicted on an escutcheon, sometimes accompanied by other elements of a heraldic achievement, such as a…
- color noun Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
- compartment noun A mound (often of grass), shelf (of e.g. wall) or other thing beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.
- console noun A decorative frame or support (in architecture, drawings, etc) around a heraldic shield.
- corded adj Wound about with a cord or cords of a specified tincture.
- cost noun A cottise.
- cottise noun A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend: a thin line borne around another charge.
- couchant adj Represented as crouching with the head raised.
- couché adj Inclined at an angle.
- counter-paly adj Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colours used alternately or counterchanged.
- counterchanged adj Having the tinctures exchanged mutually.
- countercharge verb To reverse the colors; to make counterchanged.
- countercombatant adj Facing each other (like combattant animals), especially in on either side of a charge.
- counterembowed adj Bent, curved or arched in two directions, both to the left and to the right, or both upwards and downwards.
- counterflory adj Decorated with fleurs-de-lis or other floral motifs arranged in pairs opposite each other, especially on opposite sides of a border on a…
- counterly adv In a way that is counter to something else, for example in colour (being divided, as a field, bordure, etc, into different colours), or…
- counterpassant adj Passant in opposite directions; said of two animals, or of one animal in relation to another animal on the same shield.
- counterpotent noun A fur differing from potent in the arrangement of the patches: the T shapes are alternatingly upright and inverted, such that the broad…
- countersalient adj Leaping in opposite directions (as if past or away from each other); said of two figures on a coat of arms.
- countervair noun A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures: succeeding rows are reversed instead of staggered, so…
- coupé adj Couped.
- courant adj Represented as running.
- coward adj Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
- crampon noun A heraldic figure in the form of a bar bent at the ends into the form of a hook.
- créquier noun A highly stylized tree of seven (less commonly, five) symmetrical branches, typically also depicted fruited, typically identified in…
- crescent noun The emblem of the waxing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a…
- crest noun A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately…
- cross noun Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- crossed adj Having a cross placed on it, or (with respect to the arms of a cross) having a bar placed crosswise over (an existing bar) so as to form a…
- crown noun A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- cruse noun A small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water.
- crux noun A cross on a coat of arms.
- crux ordinaria noun A certain style of cross; an instance thereof.
- dance noun A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.
- dancette noun A zigzag or indented line or figure.
- dancy adj Synonym of dancetté.
- Dane axe noun Representation of the weapon, used as a heraldic charge.
- debased adj Abased, abaissé: (of a charge) borne lower than usual.
- decrescent noun A crescent oriented with horns turned to sinister (pointing to the viewer's right).
- deface verb To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.
- defacement noun A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.
- defame adj Synonym of defamed.
- degraded adj Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.
- delf noun A charge representing a square sod of turf, traditionally taking the form of a simple square (e.g. in the middle of an escutcheon)…
- demi- prefix Only the upper or front half of
- demiwolf noun The upper half of a wolf
- dented adj Having teeth of a specified colour.
- denticulated adj Embattled, but with only the projecting portions visible, so that the bordure appears non-contiguous (but the spaces are part of the field…
- depend verb To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above, especially in heraldry, where a badge, decoration, or…
- depending adj Suspended or hanging from another element, such as a shield, helmet, crest, or a badge hanging from a chain.
- detriment noun The position or state of being eclipsed, entirely dark (sable).
- device noun A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily as it is a…
- diadem noun An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its centre.
- diamond noun Sable, when blazoning by precious stones.
- diaper noun A repeating geometrical or floral pattern, used to cover the surface of a shield and forming the ground for any charges.
- difference verb to modify a heraldic emblem so as to distinguish one branch of a house from another
- dimidiate verb To represent one half of, or undergo dimidiation with.
- dimidiation noun A marshalling of two coats of arms by the bisection per pale of their escutcheons and forming a new coat of arms from the dexter half of…
- diminutive noun The smallest, thinnest version of a traditional heraldic ordinary ("geometric shape on a shield"), often used to represent multiple…
- disclosed adj Expanded, spread; (of a winged creature) with its wings extended or spread.
- disjointed adj Having the paws and head (but not the tail) detached from the body.
- displayed adj With wings unfurled.
- dolphin noun A depiction of a fish, with a broad indented fin, usually embowed.
- dormant adj In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
- dovetail noun A line resembling a dovetail joint (sense 2.1).
- dovetailed adj Involving a wavy line in the form of triangles, resembling a dovetail.
- earl noun A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is…
- embattle noun A merlon, or a single one of the series of solid projections of a battlement.
- embattled adj Having an upper edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements, unless the embattled item is a pale…
- emblazon verb To draw (a coat of arms); depict a heraldic device on something.
- emblem noun A picture placed on the field of the escutcheon.
- emborder verb To border with the same metal or fur, rather than one that contrasts.
- emerald noun Vert, when blazoning by precious stones.
- en arrière phrase With its back to the viewer.
- endorse noun A diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale.
- engrail verb To indent with small curves.
- engrailed adj Having an edge or border indented with semicircles with points outwards (and convex part inwards).
- engrailment noun Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary.
- enguiché adj Having either a strap or a mouthpiece (or the interior of the mouth) which is of a specified tincture.
- ensign verb To distinguish by an ornament, especially by a crown.
- enté en point adj Impaled by (something in) a pointed 'pile' at the bottom of a shield, especially as a means of marshalling.
- entrail verb To outline in black.
- enty adj Parted off chevronwise; (of a charge) enté en point, inserted into a chevronlike partition of the base of the shield.
- enurny adj Charged with animals.
- environ verb To encircle or surround (a heraldic element such as a charge or escutcheon (shield)).
- eradicated adj Having the roots of a tree visible in the emblazon.
- erased adj Having the appearance of being forcibly torn off, with parts left jagged or uneven, as distinguished from couped.
- erect adj Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
- ermine adj In blazon, of the colour ermine (white with black spots).