s represented by slanting lines, drawn
from the dexter to the sinister side of the shield.

[Illustration: PURPURE]

PURPURE, or _purple_, is expressed by diagonal lines, drawn from the
sinister to the dexter side of the shield.

[Illustration: SABLE]

SABLE, or _black_, is expressed by horizontal and perpendicular
lines crossing each other.

[Illustration: TENNE]

TENNE, which is _tawny_, or _orange_ colour, is marked by diagonal
lines drawn from the sinister to the dexter side of the shield,
traversed by perpendicular lines from the chief.

[Illustration: SANGUINE]

SANGUINE is _dark red_, or _murrey_ colour; it is represented by
diagonal lines crossing each other.

In addition to the foregoing tinctures, there are nine roundlets or
balls used in Armory, the names of which are sufficient to denote
their colour without expressing the same.

[Illustration: BEZANT]

BEZANT, _Or_.

[Illustration: HURTS]

HURTS, _Azure_.

[Illustration: PLATE]

PLATE, _Argent_.

[Illustration: TORTEAUX]

TORTEAUX, _gules_.

[Illustration: GOLPE]

GOLPE, _purpure_.

[Illustration: ORANGE]

ORANGE, _tenne_.

[Illustration: POMEIS]

POMEIS, _vert_.

[Illustration: PELLET]

PELLET, _sable_.

[Illustration: GUZES]

GUZES, _sanguine_.

FURS.

_Furs_ are used to ornament garments of state and denote dignity: they
are used in Heraldry, not only for the lining of mantles and other
ornaments of the shield, but also as bearings on escutcheons.

WHITE, represented by a plain shield, like argent.

[Illustration: ERMINE]

ERMINE--white powdered with black tufts.

[Illustration: ERMINES]

ERMINES--field sable, powdering argent.

[Illustration: ERMINOIS]

ERMINOIS--field or, powdering sable.

[Illustration: PEAN]

PEAN--field sable; powdering, or.

ERMYNITES--Argent, powdered sable, with the addition of a single red
hair on each side the sable tufts. This fur is seldom seen in English
heraldry; and it is impossible to give an example without using
colour.

[Illustration: VAIR]

VAIR--argent and azure. It is represented by small bells, part
reversed, ranged in lines in such a manner, that the base argent is
opposite to the base azure.

[Illustration: COUNTER-VAIR]

COUNTER-VAIR, is when the bells are placed base against base, and
point against point.

[Illustration: POTENT]

POTENT--an obsolete word for a crutch: it is so called in Chaucer's
description of Old Age.

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