e noble
action, or by favour; and either quartered with the family arms, or on
an escutcheon or canton.

[Illustration: Augmentation]

Ex. Ermine, on a chevron azure, three foxes' heads erased, argent. The
augmentation is in a canton azure, a fleur-de-lis argent.

AZURE. The French word for _blue_: it is distinguished in heraldic
engraving by lines running parallel to each other in an horizontal
direction, as in the annexed example.

[Illustration: Azure]

BADGE. A distinctive mark worn by servants, retainers, and followers
of royalty or nobility, who, being beneath the rank of gentlemen, have
no right to armorial bearings. The rose and crown is the badge of the
servants, &c., of the Kings of England: they are displayed as in the
annexed example.

[Illustration: Badge (Rose and Crown)]

BANDED. Anything tied with a band.

[Illustration: Banded]

Ex. Argent. Three arrows proper, banded.

BANNER. The principal standard of a knight. The great banner borne at
the funeral of a nobleman contains all the quarterings of his arms: it
varies in size according to the rank of the deceased. The banner of
the sovereign is five feet square; that of a prince or duke, four feet
square; for all noblemen of inferior rank, three feet square.

BANNER ROLL is a small square flag containing a single escutcheon of
the deceased. Thus, if there are twelve quarterings in the banner,
the same number of banner rolls will be required to be borne in
the funeral procession. The annexed engraving shows the banner and
banner-roll.

[Illustration: Banner roll]

BAR. An honourable ordinary, occupying one-fifth of the shield. It may
be placed in any part of the field. It has two diminutives, the closet
and barrulet.

[Illustration: Bar]

Ex. Ermine, two bars gules.

BARBED. Bearded. It is also applied to roses.

[Illustration: Barbed]

Ex. Azure, a rose argent, barbed, and seeded proper.

BARON. The lowest title of the peerage of Great Britain.

BARON AND FEMME. Terms used in Heraldry to denote the arms of a man
and his wife, marshalled together. See p. 38. [CHAP. VI.]

BARRULET. The smallest diminutive of the bar. The closet is half the
bar; the barrulet half the closet.

[Illustration: Barrulet]

Ex. Gules, two barrulets argent.

BARRY. A field divided transversely into several equal parts, and
consisting of two different tinctures interchangeably disposed.

[Illustration: Barry]

Ex. Barry of eight pieces, azure and