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as to fay, without fkin; the rind of the apple, pear, 
peach, apricot, Sc c. being very thin and foft. Fig. 130, 
argent, a pomegranatefeeded proper, is a bearing fomewhat 
fimilar in defignation to the preceding.' 
' Fig. 131. Sable, d portcullis or. The portcullis was a 
ftrong gate, grated, which they ufed anciently to let 
down at the entrance and for the defence of caftles, 
towers, &c. See the article Fortification. It is 
an apt bearing for military engineers. 
Fig. 132. Or, in chief a guarterfoil, and in bafe a double 
quarterfoil azure. The quarterfoil is fuppofed to repre¬ 
sent the primrofe. It is fometimes, though feldom, to 
be found double, except as a difference for the ninth fort: 
Fig. 133. Gules, a quiver or, arrows proper. The quiver 
was a cafe to keep the arrows in readinefs, and was worn 
for that purpofe behind the left fhoulder, in order to 
fupply the archer with a fucceftion of weapons. Th.e 
moll ancient of profane writers, Homer, mentions the 
quiver of Apollo in the beginning of the Iliad, A. v. 45: 
ctfAtpviqetpici Te (poigeT£’/)V 
Ex^ayfao 1 oir<» ew’ ufjeidt1 xtoofAtvoK). 
It was worn at a time when heraldic bearings began to 
adorn the Ihields of the Chriftian chiefs in the Eaft. 
Fig. 134. Or, a rainbow proper. A feclion of a circle of 
Jeven different colours defcribed on the clouds oppofite 
to the fun when its rays pafs through a watery medium. 
Fig. 135 . Sable, rays iffuino from a cloud proper. See our 
defcription of the lines of partition. 
Fig. 136. Argent, a reindeer's head cabofied fable. This 
fleet animal of the cervus genus, has been fo far domefti- 
•cated, that it draws, on icy ground, the fledges of the 
northern nations. His attires, or horns, which have in 
nature a very peculiar form, are to be pajnted as repre- 
fented in the annexed engraving. 
Fig. 137. Gules, a ref or. Whether this bearing is a' 
fniall piece of wood, or any other fubffance, hanging at 
the fide of the combatants on horfeback in tournaments,, 
for the purpofe of refting their lance upon, and to give a 
greater impetuofity to their thruffs when they encoun¬ 
tered ; or whether it is the old flute, fd much renowned 
among the Syracufan fhepherds, “ Septan compada cicutis 
ffula or fome other inffrument, called fometimes cla¬ 
rion, orclaricord ; is not yet, and perhaps will never be, 
decided, among etymologifts, antiquarians, and heralds. 
'It is, however, an ancient bearing. 
Fig. 138. Argent, a rofe gules. The heraldic rofe, as 
painted red for the badge of the Lancafter branch, and 
white for the Yorkiffs, differs a little from the natural 
one ; and the pofition, difpofition of petals, and charac- 
terifiic fhape, ought to be obferVed and imitated from 
the fpecimen which we have here given from the beft 
examples in ancient and modern authors. 
Fig. 139. Sable, the rudder of a. flip argent. An apt 
bearing for thofe who laudably undertake voyages of 
difcovery. 
Fig. 140. Or, a favage proper. This fuppofed man of 
the woods, or wild man, obtained very early a place 
on the fliield, and probably'from fome gigantic inhabi¬ 
tants of the forefts of Germany, who emerged acciden¬ 
tally from their haunts, and defied the armed knight, 
and made the ffeel of his helmet and fhield ring under 
the ponderous ffrokes of their club. They are repre¬ 
sented generally naked, but wreathed round the temples 
and loins with boughs of oak, laurel, See. Sometimes 
they are clad in a coat of bark or cortex of any tree, 
with their elbows and knees bare. Fig. 141. Vert, a 
demifavage proper-, a bearing fomewhat fimilar to that 
above defcribed 
Fig. 142. Argent, a Saracen's head proper, wreathed or 
and fable. The charaCler g;v.n to this head muff be 
fiercenefs and audacity. The Saracer troops compofed 
the greateft part of the Mahometan armies in the time 
•of the crufades; and the adoption of the bearing en¬ 
graved under this number, dates from the earlieft days 
L D R Y. 
of heraldry. The head is covered with a turban, or 
fimply furrounded above the ear with a wreath of two 
tinClures, and ought to be exprelled in the blazoning. 
Fig. 143. Azure, afealing ladder or. The continual ufe 
which befiegers have for this implement, has induced 
armorifts to place it among the common charges. 
Fig. 144. Or, a fea-horfc azure. Although this crea¬ 
ture is of fabulous invention, yet its fhape ought to be 
ftriCtly retained in heraldry. The animal that bears 
that name in natural hiftory, is very different in form. 
Fig. 145. Azure, a ferpent nowed proper. The great 
number of ferpents and fnakes of all forts which the 
legions of the crofs muff have encountered in Africa 
and Afia, and which are fo poetically defcribed in the 
Pliaffalia of Lucan, gave rife to the bearing of reptiles 
in coats of arms.. 
Fig. 146. Argent, in chief two flk-hanhs, in bafe afuttlt 
proper. Weaving was certainly of Afiatic invention. 
Penelope, in Homer, fits conllantly at the loom ; and 
as the art of weaving was imitated from the fpider and 
the filk-iyorm, Arachne is fuppofed, by mythology, to 
have been the inventrefs of that iifeful employment. 
Fig. 147. Purpure, threefpears heads argent, embruedgules. 
A very ancient warlike bearing. 
Fig. 148. Or, a fphinx couchant proper. This hierogly- 
phical creature ot Egyptian’fancy is half a beautiful 
woman, and half a lion. Much has been faid upon the 
feverity of the allegory againft the fair fex ; but the 
faCl is, that the meaning eff this figure has quite a diffe¬ 
rent tendency. One of the moft intereffing operations 
of nature in Egypt was the inundation of the Nile, which 
generally happens about July or Auguft; and the inge¬ 
nious people who benefited by it, have noted and exem¬ 
plified the circumftance, by uniting the two figns of the 
zodiac, Leo and Virgo, which correfpond to thofe two 
months; placing the Virgin' firff, either becaufe bf their 
manner of writing anciently from right to left, the laft 
figure with 11s being the firff with them ; or becaufe of the 
difficulty of grouping well in one body ajion’s head with 
the inferior part of a woman. It has-been lately granted 
to fome of thofe herbes who, in 1799, diftinguiflfed 
themfelves in Egypt, and made the whole French army 
prifoners of war : whence we might fay of their famous 
ffandard, what Corneille, the father , of their tragedy, 
fays on another occafion : II etoit invaincu, mais non pas in¬ 
vincible ; “ It was unvanquifhed, but not invincible.” 
See the article Egypt, vol. vi. p. 336, See. 
Fig. 149. Azure, three flirrups or. There is hardly a 
part in the harnefs of a warrior which is not recorded 
among armorial bearings. 
Fig. 150. Argent, a ragged faff in bendfiinfer fable. 
Fig. 151. Gules, a fag trippant argent. The elegance 
ofmotion, the eafe and lightnefs, with which this fpright- 
ly animal bounds o’er the lawn, gave origin to the word 
trippant, which is ufed inftead of paffant, for the flag, 
and a few animals of a fimilar kind. The chace was a 
favourite amufement with the princes ofEngland,France, 
and Germany, as well as thofe'of Italy, in the feudal 
ages; and they did not difdain'to decorate' their war¬ 
like apparel with the figure of an animal which, in time 
of peace, had afforded them fo much delectable fport. 
Fig. 152. Argent, a fag courant gules, armed or. The 
attire of a flag may be of a tincture different from the 
body, and it is in general in contradiffinCtion with it; 
that is, if the horns are of a metal, the body muff be 
of a colour, and vice verfa. Yet this rulejadmits of many 
exceptions, as will appear in the numerous coats of anus 
delineated on the Plates adapted to this article.-. 
Fig. 153. Azure, a fag fat ant at gaze argent. In this 
pofition the animal is reprelented full-faced. It is the 
natural attitude of this peaceable inhabitant of the grove, 
when the fudden blaft of the horn breaks his reff. 
Fig. 154. Or, a fag lodged gules .—“ Lying dowu among 
the branching leaves of the mountain fern, and liffening 
to the palling breeze j” the flag may have been an ap¬ 
propriate 
