Heraldry Two This tile set illustrates terms used to describe in proper terms armorial bearings and their accessories. Tinctures (colors) used are as follows: or, which signifies gold, and in color yellow; argent, which signifies silver or white; gules, which signifies red; azure, which signifies blue; vert, which signifies green; purpure, which signifies purple; sable, which signifies black; tenne, which signifies tawny or orange; and sanguine, which signifies dark red or murrey. Furs are also used in heraldry. The word "proper" is used to signify that the figure used on a shield is to be represented in its natural colors. When describing a shield the background color is first given then the various devices that are to be placed thereon. 1. Argent, a mascle vert 2. Argent, a fess gules impaled with argent, a bend azure 3. Azure a bend or 4. Purpure, an orle or 5. Baron and wife, gules, a saltire argent, on an escutcheon of pretense azure, a chevron or 6. Azure, three closets argent impaled with argent, a bend gules 7. Azure, two closets or 8. Argent, a bend sinister gules 9. Gules, a canton argent 10. Checky, sable and argent 11. Gules, a chevron argent 12. Or two chevronels gules 13. Argent, a cross potent rebated gules 14. Argent, a pale dancette vert 15. Quarterly per pale dovetailed, or and vert 16. Argent, a pale between endorses gules 17. Sable, three bendlets enhanced argent 18. Argent, chevron or between three crosses couped sable, on an escutcheon of pretense gules, two quarterfoils argent 19. Gules, a flasque argent 20. Azure, fleur-de-lis argent (mark of sixth son on British arms) 21. Or, a fusil purpure 22. Azure, a gyron argent 23. Or, a chief indented gules 24. Vert, three inescutcheons argent 25. Argent, a bend invected gules between two hurts 26. Lozengy or and gules 27. Argent, a martlet gules (an imaginary bird without legs) 28. Argent, a pallet gules 29. Parted per pale and per chevron counter-changed, gules and or 30. Parted per pale and per bend counter-changed, argent and vert 31. Parted per fess engrailed, vert and argent 32. Parted per pale, azure and argent 33. Vert, a quarter foil 34. Argent, three trefoils gules, one over two 35. Argent, a stag proper, tripping 39. Azure, a rustre argent