Part 15 (1/2)

_Embattled_, and _Counter-Embattled_. A term applied to a fess or bar when so depicted both above and below.

_Embowed._ Bent. An arm embowed has the elbow to the dexter, unless blazoned to the contrary.

_Embrued._ Stained with blood.

_Endorse._ A diminutive of the pale.

_Enfiled._ Pierced, _e.g._ with a sword, or surrounded, _e.g._ with a coronet.

_Engrailed._ The border-line, No. 38D.

_Enhanced._ Raised towards the chief. Thus the arms of BYRON, No. 241, are--_Arg., three bendlets enhanced gu._

_Ensigned._ Adorned; having some ensign of honour placed above--as a coronet above a s.h.i.+eld.

_Entire._ Said of a charge when it is necessary to express that it extends to the border lines of a s.h.i.+eld, coat, or banner; also of a s.h.i.+eld, coat, or banner of arms, when borne without any difference or mark of cadency.

_Entoire_, _Entoyre_. A bordure charged with a series of inanimate figures or devices, as crosslets, roundles, &c.; to a similar bordure of living figures the term _Enaluron_ is applied. These are not terms ordinarily in use.

_Enveloped_, _Environed_. Surrounded.

_Equipped._ Fully armed, caparisoned, or provided.

_Eradicated._ Torn up by the roots.

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 240.--Electoral Bonnet.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 241.--s.h.i.+eld of Byron.]

_Erased._ Torn off with a ragged edge; the contrary to _Couped_.

_Ermine_, _Ermines_, _Erminois_. Nos. 57-60 and 57A. The animal, the ermine, sometimes appears in blazon, and an ermine spot is borne as a charge.

_Erne._ An eagle. (See p. 96.)

_Escarbuncle._ No. 19.

_Escroll._ A ribbon charged with a motto; also a ribbon, coiled at its extremities, borne as a charge.

_Escutcheon._ An heraldic s.h.i.+eld: Nos. 39-40: also No. 27. An Escutcheon, when borne as a charge, is usually blazoned as an ”_Inescutcheon_”: thus, the Arms of HAY are,--_Arg., three inescutcheons gu._: see also Nos. 131, 133.

_Escutcheon of Pretence._ A s.h.i.+eld charged upon the centre of the field of another s.h.i.+eld of larger size, and bearing a distinct Coat-of-Arms.

_Escallop_, or _Escallop-Sh.e.l.l_. A beautiful and favourite charge; No.

165.

_Esquire._ A rank below that of Knight. Besides those Esquires who are personal attendants of Knights of Orders of Knighthood at their installations, this t.i.tle is held by most attendants on the person of the Sovereign, and all persons holding or having held the Sovereign's commission in which they are so styled.

_Estate._ Dignity and rank.