But history in all its branches, heraldry and genealogy, biography and topography, are his specially strong points.
The term Canting Heraldry frequently occurs in ancient and modern authors.
The only abatement used in heraldry is the baton: this denotes illegitimacy.
Suffice it that we have ample proof that heraldry formed the decoration of female attire.
In Heraldryit is usually drawn straight, as in the lower example.
Part of a celestial constellation, used by ancient English heralds to denote tenne when emblazoning the arms of sovereigns; this style of heraldry has become obsolete.
The figure inserted in the illustration of the word "clarion" is by some writers on Heraldry thought to represent a rest for a lance, and they give the charge that name.
This term is used in Heraldry when a fish is drawn in an horizontal position.
It is against the rules of Heraldry to place metal upon metal, or colour upon colour, unless for special reasons.
Terms used in Heraldry to denote the arms of a man and his wife, marshalled together.
The two metals used in Heraldry are gold and silver, called or and argent.
In Heraldry the eagle is accounted one of the most noble bearings, and ought to be given only to such as greatly excel in the virtues of generosity and courage, or for having done some singular service to their sovereign.
There cannot be a doubt that the text is right, and that there is a punning allusion to the new heraldry of hands in the baronets' arms.
A crown having the points surmounted by stars, is called in heraldry the "crown celestial.
NOTE 12 Although canting heraldry is generally reprobated, it seems nevertheless to have been adopted in the arms and mottos of many honourable families.
In heraldry he was fortunately contented to give her only such a slight tincture as might be acquired by perusal of the two folio volumes of Nisbet.
She mastered a treatise on heraldry so thoroughly that she corrected her father one day when she saw him engraving a seal inconformably to some minor rule of that art.
I only look to see The marks of sacrifice, The heraldry of sympathy, Which can alone suffice.
While derived from traditional heraldry and having much in common with it, Imperial heraldry has the advantage of hindsight, which has led to several improvements.
At the same time the wainscotting painted in 1580 with inscriptions and heraldry was cleared away and replaced with cement.
Those on the west (left) were deprived of their heraldry and portraits in 1785.
It is a pursuit which is most educative to the lover of books, because it is filled with symbols and leads on to the noble art of heraldry and spiritual intellectualism, in which such men as Albert Duerer stand so pre-eminent.
The mark upon his shoulderblade is a distinction used by the Indians in traveling, to show the nation they are of; and perhaps is the same with that which Baron Lahontan calls the arms and heraldry of the Indians.
And this is all the heraldry that I know is practiced among the Indians.
Escutcheon of pretense, an escutcheon used in English heraldry to display the arms of the bearer's wife; -- not commonly used unless she an heiress.
It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue.
Defn: Having undulations like waves; -- said of one of the lines inheraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc.
It is to be remembered that heraldry does not, except when specifically given, deal with exact dimensions, but gives the general appearance and particular colourings of the shield or banner.
If the object of heraldry is the teaching of lessons by the combinations of colour and of forms, then the flag as made is yet more heraldically successful.
Heraldry The author has been here upbraided with false heraldry, as having charged metal upon metal.
It should be remembered, however, that heraldry had only its first rude origin during the crusades, and that all the minutiae of its fantastic science were the work of time, and introduced at a much later period.
Bath were created; and, therefore, our writers on heraldry and titles of honor are not justified in the positiveness with which they always head their dissertations on knighthood of the Bath with the year 1399.
A second proof of our assumed origin of coats of arms is the word blason, which denotes the science of heraldry in French, English, Italian, and Spanish.
But the French carried to far greater perfection the tournament, and the blazon or heraldry connected with it, as they did the whole system of chivalry.
Arms in heraldryare ensigns armorial or marks of honor borne upon shields, banners, and coats of mail, in order to distinction.
Notwithstanding these traces of armorial bearings in the ancient world, our heraldry is no older than the tournaments.
Be it lore--of chivalry or heraldry or woodcraft or what you will, I can always turn to Mary.
Heraldry was the science that dealt with armorial bearings; and a family who were versed in heraldry and knew the meaning and history of their coat-of-arms might be in a position to boast of their lineage.
The bogus heraldry of Haeckel is as obviously insufficient as any quaint old chronicle tracing the genealogies of English kings through the chiefs of Troy to the children of Noah.
It is true that heraldry began beautifully as an art and afterwards degenerated into a science.
It is as if we could make a heraldry of handwriting, or cover a wall-paper with signatures.
We might have been proud of what our star has wrought, and worn its heraldry haughtily in the blind tournament of the spheres.
Heraldry properly so called was, of course, a wholly limited and aristocratic thing, but the remark needs a kind of qualification not commonly realized.
May not some of the figures of animals inheraldry have come right down from savage times, even if they do not represent totems?
Heraldry is an intricate science, full of pitfalls for the unwary, and demands an earnest study of its complex rules and regulations.
Heraldry sometimes adds historic interest to embroideries; owners or donors may be traced by their coat of arms appearing upon some part of the work.
Allied to heraldry and marking are a number of decorative objects that have acquired peculiar traditional significance of an emblematic or symbolical nature, hard to define.
Like its language, the Nomenclature of English Heraldry is of a mixed character, in part technical and peculiar to itself, and in part the same that is in common use.
Heraldry in England had confirmed its own claims to be regarded as a Science, by being in possession of a system, and a classification of its own.
The Lion of Heraldry I leave to be considered, with the Eagle, in the next Chapter.
It appears probable that it was introduced to French heraldry by Louis VII.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heraldry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
