Easy label has profile has body part attitude has field tincture has neck severence type has behaviour has attitude has face attitude has body attitude is charged with has bird attitude has tincture is body attitude of Escutcheon A shield; can have a shield with a field but no charge. Dormant Sleeping sleeping, is lying down with its eyes closed and head lowered, resting upon the forepaws, as if asleep Marshalling Quartering Fleur-de-lis Lozenge fusil A narrow lozenge shape Mascle A voided lozenge; that is, with a lozenge shaped hole inside Rustre A lozenge pierced; that is, with a round hole Billet A rounded rectangle Delf A square Per fess Halved horizontally Rampant depicted in profile standing erect with forepaws raised; sometimes Standing on one back leg Per pale Halved vertically Per saltire Diagonally in both directions Per quarterly both horizonatally and vertically Per Chevron divided in the manner of a chevron Per pall Divided in to 3 parts in the manner of the letter y Chevron Armour part Mane Estoile A star with (usually six) wavy rays Star with six wavy rays Increscent if its horns are to dexter it represents a waxing moon (increscent) Charge Decrescent Horns to sinister it represents a waning moon (decrescent). Ordinary geometric shpatges and stuff. Contrasted tincture Armed Claws and horns different tincture to rest of animal. Langued Pizzled Penis different tincture to rest of animal charge. Attired Antlers different tincture to rest of animal charge. Unguled Hooves different tincture to rest of animal charge. Crined Horse's mane different tincture to rest of animal charge. Plain escutcheon A tinctured field with no charges. Light tincture Coloured Escutcheon and metal charge Metal escutcheon and coloured charge Dark Dark tincture Roundel Colour Argent Or Creature Field Background Vert Azure Gules Purpure Dexter Facing right, the viewer's left Creature profile Affronté Regardant segreant A creature segreant has both forelegs raised in the air, as a beast rampant, with wings elevated and addorsed. Domain entity Tincture Face attitude Leopard Line of division Lion Eagle Griffin Unicorn Dragon Raven Stag Metal Doe Fictional creature Animal Bird Hooves Passant walks toward the viewer's left, with the right forepaw raised and all others on the ground Coat of arms Sejant sits on his haunches, with both forepaws on the ground Displayed A bird displayed is shown affronté with its head turned to dexter and wings spread to the sides to fill the area of the field. This position is presumed Rising Fur Trussed Vigilant Sea animal Creature behaviour Predatory Docile contourné trippant The counterpart of passant, but for beasts of chase such as stags Sejant erect seated on its haunches, but with its body erect and both forepaws raised in the rampant position Cadent is upside down, especially while supporting an escutcheon Vair Couchant Lying down, head raised is lying down, but with the head raised. Lodged is the term for this position [Couchant] when applied to the docile animals. Salient is leaping, with both hind legs together on the ground and both forelegs together in the air. Springing for docile animals. Statant standing (in profile toward dexter), all four feet on the ground, usually with the forepaws together. Body part Obviously not an animal. Certain features of an animal are often of a contrasting tincture. The charge is then said to be armed (claws and horns), langued (tongue), pizzled (penis), attired (antlers), unguled (hooves), crined (horse's mane) of a specified tincture. Antler Naiant An animal or creature naiant is swimming. Hauriant A fish, dolphin, or other sea creature hauriant is in a perpendicular position with its head up. Glissant A serpent glissant is gliding. At bay Same as soemthing else but used for docile beasts Body attitude Ermine Bird attitude Tail Teeth Claw Tongue Body part attitude Coward Tail down an attitude of the tail; -- tail between the legs. Docile animal At gaze both statant and guadant; standing on all four legs and looking at the observer Cross Attitude Latin cross Greek cross a cross in which all the arms are of equal length. Neck severence type While cabossed heads are shown facing forward (affronté), heads that are couped or erased face dexter unless otherwise specified for differencing. cabossed with the head cleanly separated from the neck so that only the face shows; also Cabbaged or caboshed Couped Cleanly severed with the neck cleanly separated from the body so that the whole head and neck are present; erased with the neck showing a ragged edge as if forcibly torn from the body quatrefoil Charge quality cinquefoil Flower Shade Trefoil Crown Star Per bend diagonally from upper left to lower right Helmet Pale Amulet circle charge Key Per bend sinister diagonally from upper right to lower left Head Crescent Lodged Argent with latin cross argent ...if we replace all occurrences of Vert with Argent, this causes inconsistency Or with lion regardant passant coward vert Argent with latin cross gules field vert should obey rule of tincture Azure with Estoile and cresent or Purpure with Estoile and cressent or Purple background with a yellow star and cressent