BULE, or NEBULY.]

NOBILITY. Under this denomination are comprehended--dukes, marquises,
earls, viscounts, and barons only. Archbishops and bishops are
included in the rank of clergy.

NOMBRIL POINT. That part of the shield below the fess point. See page
6. letter F. [CHAP. II.]

NORROY. The name of one of the Kings-at-Arms. See King-at-Arms.

NOWED. This word signifies tied or knotted, and is applied to
serpents, wiverns, or any animals whose tails are twisted and enfolded
like a knot.

[Illustration: EX. Argent, a serpent nowed proper.]

OGRESSES. Black roundlets.

OR. The French word for gold. This tincture is denoted in engraving by
small points.

[Illustration: EX. Or, a bend gules.]

ORANGES. Roundlets tinctured tenne.

ORDINARY. A term used to denote the simple forms which were first used
as heraldic distinctions, and therefore called honourable ordinaries,
as conferring more honour than later inventions. They are the chief,
pale, bend, bend sinister, fess, bar, chevron, cross, and cross
saltier. There are thirteen subordinate ordinaries. The form, size,
and place that the honourable and subordinate ordinaries occupy in an
achievement are all described in the Manual, and in this Dictionary
under their different names.

[Illustration: ORLE.]

ORLE. A subordinate ordinary composed of double lines going round the
shield at some distance from its edge; it is half the width of the
bordure.

OVER ALL. This expression describes a figure borne over another and
obscuring part of it.

[Illustration: Over all]

EX. Quarterly or and gules, over all a bend vair.

PALE. One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two perpendicular
lines drawn from the base to the chief. The pale occupies one third of
the shield.

[Illustration: Pale]

EX. Azure, a pale or

PALL. A scarf in the shape of the letter Y, forming part of the
vesture of a Roman Catholic prelate. It is introduced as the principal
bearing of the archbishops of Canterbury, Armagh, and Dublin.

[Illustration: Pall]

Ex. Azure, on a pall argent, four crosses fitchy sable, in chief a
cross pattee of the second.

[Illustration: PALLET]

PALLET. A diminutive of the pale.

PALY. A field divided by perpendicular lines into several equal parts
of metal and tincture interchangeably disposed.

[Illustration: Paly]

Ex. Paly of four, argent and gules.

PARTY or PARTED signifies divided, and applies to the several parts of
an escutcheon parted