Cheff or chief suggests the upper third of the heraldic shield, but I cannot persuade the suggestion to further development.

Let this be so: His meanes of death, his obscure buriall; [Sidenote: funerall,] No Trophee, Sword, nor Hatchment o're his bones, [Footnote 1: perhaps the heraldic term.

The nobles were welcome to retain their stars and orders and ribbons and heraldic distinctions, even their parks and palaces and falcons and hounds.

Baptist Hatton at that time was the most famous of heraldic antiquaries.

The walls were likewise adorned with a large number of heraldic shields.

Very possibly, this helmet was but an heraldic adornment of his tomb; and, indeed, it seems strange that it has not been stolen before now, especially in Cromwell's time, when knightly tombs were little respected, and when armor was in request.

Their etymological Herald's Office is kept by schoolmasters, and especially schoolma'ams, or, in the true heraldic tongue, "Preceptresses of Educational Seminaries."

So long as the German Army points to its heraldic eagle and says, "I come in the name of this fierce but fabulous animal," the German Army will be all right.

When you go to a dinner-party they put in front of you five different chalices, of five weird and heraldic shapes, to symbolise five different kinds of wine; an insane extension of ritual from which Mr. Percy Dearmer would fly shrieking.

He drew charcoal sketches of churches, castles, knightly tombs, and heraldic blazonry.

It was the blood that was dribbling between the heraldic flowers of the embroidery,blood flowing from the hidden forehead, being absorbed by the dryness of the soft material.

* OLD PAINTED GLASS For poor ignorant people like myself pray insert the following, as perhaps some of your heraldic correspondents may afford some information for the benefit of your very humble servant, F.E. Newington, June 17.

For till and counter gauge long descent, and heraldic quarterings, and ancestral Crusaders, far below the chink of ready money, that synonym for all the virtues.

Query IX.In Holme's Academy of Armory and Blazou, Chester, 1688, p. 289, we find a Dodo figured as an heraldic device, a fac-simile of which is given in the Annals of Natural History, 2nd series, vol.

If I could be quite sure of the heraldic slang for puce I would tell you what it is on our Army Corps arm-band.

guivre (also written givre), a heraldic term meaning a serpent.

It also signifies in heraldry a circular band or pad to which heraldic negroes' heads were attached.

The reference is to the coronet of a French marquis, which bore eight jewelled ornaments, four of which consisted each of three great pearls arranged as a trefoil, while the other four were 'feuilles d'ache,' the heraldic representation of the leaf of the wild parsley.

A heraldic figure, half woman, half serpent, bathing in a basin.

alérion, a heraldic figure, representing an eagle without beak or claws.

The word is used with the heraldic sense.

building, with small octagonal turrets and a front much decorated with heraldic devices.

Near the church is the Vicarage House, with a fine carved doorway on the S. side (15th cent.), bearing, amongst other heraldic devices, that of Bishop Beckington.

The mansions themselves, the secular escutcheons, the heraldic deportment of this antique caste had disappeared.

T TABARD, a tunic without sleeves worn by military nobles over their arms, generally emblazoned with heraldic devices.