The Handbook to English Heraldry Part 12

_Blasted._ Leafless, withered.

_Blazon._ Heraldry: Armorial Compositions. "To blazon" is to _describe_ or to _represent_ any armorial Figure, Device, or Composition in an heraldic manner. _Blazoning_--_Describing_ in heraldic language: also, _representing_ in an heraldic manner. _Blazonry_--the representation of any heraldic Figure, Device, or Composition. But the distinction is in practice usually made to employ the word "emblazon" in cases of representation.

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 218.--Water Bouget.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 219.--Bourchier Knot.]

_Boar._ In Heraldry occasionally termed _Sanglier_.

_Bordure._ A Subordinary: Nos. 139, 140. Also, an important "Difference." (See Chapters XII. and XIII.)

_Botonee_, _Botonee Fitchee_. Varieties of the heraldic Cross: Nos. 103, 110. This Cross is also termed _Treflee_.

_Bouget_, or _Water Bouget_. A charge, representing the vessels used by the Crusaders for carrying water. The word is an early form of Bucket.

Fine early examples occur in the Temple Church, at Beverley Minster, and in a monument at Blyborough, Lincolnshire: No. 218.

_Bourchier Knot._ The badge of the Bourchier family represented in No.

219.

_Bourdon._ A palmer's or pilgrim's staff. (See _Pilgrim's Staff_.)

_Bow._ The archer's weapon, in all its varieties of form, is a charge.

_Bowed._ Having a convex contour.

_Bowen Knot._ No. 220.

_Braced._ Interlaced.

_Breys._ Barnacles, _q.v._

_Brisure_, or _Brizure_. Any difference or mark of cadency.

_Buckle._ See _Fermaile_.

_Burgonet._ A helm worn in the sixteenth century.

_Cabossed_, or _Caboshed_. The head of a stag, or other horned animal, represented full-faced, so as to show the face only: No. 170. In the case of a lion or leopard when the head is so represented it is termed the face.

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 220.--Bowen Knot.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 221.--Caltrap.]

_Cadency, Marks of._ Figures and devices, introduced into armorial compositions, in order to distinguish the different members and branches of the same family. (See _Difference_, and Chapter XII.)

_Cadet._ A junior member or branch of a family.

_Caltrap._ An implement formerly strewn on the ground in war to maim horses: No. 221.

_Canting Heraldry._ Refer to _Armes Parlantes_.

_Canton._ One of the Subordinaries: Nos. 129, 130.

_Cantoned._ Placed in the quarters of a shield.

_Carbuncle._ The same as _Escarbuncle_.

_Cartouche._ No. 46.

_Castle._ Generally represented with two or three turrets, as in the shield of Queen Alianore, of Castile: No. 222. Refer to _Tower_.

_Celestial Crown._ No. 223.

_Centaur._ Also blazoned as a _sagittary_, and supposed to have been a badge of King Stephen.

_Cercelee_, or _Recercelee_. A descriptive term to denote a variety of the heraldic Cross: No. 98.

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 222.--Castle.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 223.--Celestial Crown.]

_Chapeau._ Also ent.i.tled _a cap of dignity_, _of maintenance_, or _of estate_. An early symbol of high dignity, and in England of right of Peerage. In addition it is now more frequently met with supporting certain crests: No. 224.

_Chaplet._ A garland or entwined wreath of leaves and flowers, or of flowers alone. A _chaplet of rue_, sometimes called a _crancelin_, is blazoned bend-wise in the shield of Saxony--_Barry of ten or and sa., over all a chaplet of rue vert_: No. 225. (See _Crancelin_.)

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 224.--Chapeau.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 225.--Arms of Saxony.]

_Charge._ Any heraldic figure or device. _Charged_--placed on a shield, banner, &c., as any heraldic figure or device may be.

_Chequee_, _Chequy_, _Checky_. Divided into three, or into more than three, contiguous rows of small squares, alternately of a metal (or fur) and a colour: No 68.

_Chess rook._ A piece used in the game of Chess: borne by _Roke_wood and others: No. 226.

_Chevron._ One of the Ordinaries: Nos. 123, 125.

_Chevronel._ A diminutive of the Chevron: No. 124.

_Chevronee_, _Chevrony_. A field composed of a number of pieces divided and disposed _per Chevron_: No. 124A.

_Chief._ One of the Ordinaries: Nos. 71-75. _In Chief_--placed in the upper part of the shield, or arranged in a horizontal row across the upper part of the field.

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 226.--Chess Rook.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 227.--Cinque foil.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 228.--Clarions.]