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In heraldry a badelaire is a broad-bladed sword, or scimitar, slightly curved.
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In heraldry, a badge, or cognisance is a distinctive mark somewhat similar to a crest, though not placed on a wreath, nor worn on the helmet. They were rather supplemental bearings quite independent of the charge of the original arms, and were borne on the banners, ensigns, caparisons, and even on the breasts, and more frequently on the sleeves of servants and followers.
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In heraldry a bague is a gem or finger ring.
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In heraldry, a bagwyn is an imaginary beast like the heraldic antelope, but having the tail of a horse, and long horns curved over the ears.
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In heraldry, baillonne describes animal embellishments when they have a baton in their mouth.
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In heraldry, a ballet is a bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to their colour.
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In heraldry a bar is an ordinary formed after the manner of a fesse, but occupying only a fifth of the field, and not confined to any particular part of it, except when there is only one bar, when it is put in the place of a fesse. Bars are mostly two in a field, sometimes three or more.
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In heraldry, barded means having horse-trappings.
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In heraldry, bardings are horse-trappings, often enriched with armorial blazonry.
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In heraldry a barrulet is a diminutive of the bar, of which it is one-fourth the thickness, that is a twentieth part of the field.
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In heraldry, barruly describes the field when traversed by barrulets or small bars.
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In heraldry, the term barry denotes that the field is horizontally divided into a certain even number of equal parts.
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In heraldry, barry bendy describes a field divided by lines drawn bendwise and also by lines drawn horizontally.
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In heraldry, barry pily denotes that the field is divided into an even number of pieces by piles placed horizontally across the shield.
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In heraldry, bars gemel are two barrulets placed near and parallel to each other.
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In heraldry the term barwise means horizontally.
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In heraldry, the base is the lower part of the field (the pointed part of the shield).
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In heraldry, a baton is an ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one quarter in breadth of the bend sinister.
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In heraldry, a bearing is any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
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In heraldry, a belt is a token or badge of knightly rank.
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In heraldry, a bend is one of the nine honourable ordinaries, consisting of a belt drawn diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base, and occupying one third of the field.
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In heraldry, a bend sinister is an honourable ordinary drawn from the sinister chief to the dexter base.
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In heraldry a bendlet is a derivative of the bend, being one-half the width of the bend.
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In heraldry, bendwise means Diagonally.
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In heraldry, a shield or its charge is described as bendy when it is divided into an even number of bends.
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In heraldry, beque means beaked. The term is used specifically of a bird which has its beak coloured differently to the rest of its body.
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In heraldry, a bevile (or bevel) is a chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel.
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In heraldry, beviled (or bevelled) describes a partition line of a shield which is notched with an angle like that enclosed by a carpenter's bevel.
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In heraldry, a bezant is a circle in or (gold), representing the gold coin called a bezant.
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In heraldry, bicapitated means having two heads, like an eagle with two heads and one body.
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In heraldry, bicorporate describes something as being double-bodied, for example a lion having one head and two bodies.
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In heraldry a billet is a bearing in the form of a rectangle, supposed to represent a piece of paper folded in the form of a letter. Its proportions are two squares.
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The blue mantle is one of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms - so called from the colour of his official robes.
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In heraldry a bordure is a border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
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In heraldry, the boreyne is a mythical creature with the body of a dog, the horns of a ram, a spined fin on its back, a barbed tongue and a mane.
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In heraldry, bottony describes a bud-like projection, of which in general three are together. They may be seen in the cross bottony, which is a cross each of the four extremities of which terminates in bud-like prominences.
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In heraldry, a bouget is a charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water.
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In heraldry, the term braced means interlaced.
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In heraldry, a breys is charge representing an instrument used in breaking horses. The charge is to be found on the arms of Sir Reginald Bray.
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In heraldry, a brick is a charge resembling a billet, but showing its thickness in perspective.
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In heraldry a brisure is a cadency mark or difference.
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In heraldry, brouchant means placed over, as when one charge overlies another.
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