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In heraldry, the term radiant describes a bearing giving off rays.
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In heraldry, raguled or raguly describes a line or bearing notched in regular diagonal breaks.
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In heraldry, rame describes the antlers of a stag depicted in a different tincture to the body.
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In heraldry, the term rapant is applied to a figure standing erect on one of its hind legs.
A lion rampant is emblematic of magnanimity.
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In heraldry the term rampant gardant describes a figure rampant, with the face turned to the front.
A lion rampant gardant is emblematic of prudence.
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In heraldry, the term rampant regardent describes a figure rampant, but looking backward.
A lion rampant regardant is emblematic of circumspection.
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In heraldry, rampant sejant describes an animal in a sitting posture with the forelegs raised.
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In heraldry the term ravissant describes a figure depicted in a half-raised position, as if about to spring on prey.
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In heraldry, the term rayonnant, or rayonny (also spelled rayonne), means darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out. The rays are usually of gold, silver or red, and representing light or flames. The term is also applied to a line of demarcation composed of a series of rays with wavy outline.
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In heraldry, the term rearing describes a horse or stag depicted as standing on its hind legs.
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In heraldry, a rebus is a pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs.
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In heraldry the term recursant describes a figure, usually an eagle, displayed with its back toward the spectator.
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In heraldry a red hand or bloody hand is a depiction of a red coloured human left hand held palm toward the spectator, fingers erect, borne on an escutcheon. It is the mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also the Badge of Ulster, having being assigned by James I as a badge to the baronets who were to colonise Ulster.
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In heraldry regardant means looking behind or backward.
A lion regardant is emblematic of circumspection.
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In heraldry, rempli describes ordinaries which have been voided and filled with another tincture.
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In heraldry, renverse means reversed, that is the term describes a figure set with the head downward turned contrary to the natural position.
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In heraldry, repassant is a term applied when two lions or other animals are borne going contrary ways, one of which is passant, by walking towards the dexter side of the shield in the usual way, and the other repassant by going towards the sinister.
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In heraldry, resignant means concealed, and is usually applied to a lion's tail.
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In heraldry, respectant describes animal figures placed so as to face one another.
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In heraldry, a rest is a peculiar figure found in some arms. The rest is of doubtful origin and import, some scholars ascribing it to a representation of a spear rest, others to a musical instrument of some kind.
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In heraldry, the term retorted is applied to serpants wreathed one in another, or fretted in the form of a knot.
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In heraldry, retrait describes a charge couped at one end only.
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In heraldry the term reverted means bent or curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S.
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In heraldry, a ribbon is a bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
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In heraldry rompu means broken. Applied to an ordinary it describes it as being cut off, or broken at the top.
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In heraldry, the rose is a cadency mark for the seventh son.
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In heraldry a rouge croix is a red cross; one of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.
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In heraldry a rouge dragon is a red dragon; one of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.
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In heraldry a roundel or rondle is a circular spot; a charge in the form of a small circle.
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In heraldry the term rousant describes a bird in the attitude of rising.
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In heraldry, the rustre is a sub-ordinary consisting of a lozenge with a hole bored in the centre.
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