. Heraldry, historical and popular . ldry, every Coat or Shield of Arms, Crest and Badgeis attached to the Name, and not to the Title, of the person whomay bear them. All figures and devices represented in heraldic compositionshave various attributes, qualities, and epithets assigned to themby Heralds, which express their several positions and disposi-tions, and indicate the parts which they take in the aggioupmentof the whole. Thus the sun is said to be in its glory, or eclipsed ;the moon is said to be increscent, or decrescent; human figures arevariously habited ; animals are said to be arme
. Heraldry, historical and popular . ldry, every Coat or Shield of Arms, Crest and Badgeis attached to the Name, and not to the Title, of the person whomay bear them. All figures and devices represented in heraldic compositionshave various attributes, qualities, and epithets assigned to themby Heralds, which express their several positions and disposi-tions, and indicate the parts which they take in the aggioupmentof the whole. Thus the sun is said to be in its glory, or eclipsed ;the moon is said to be increscent, or decrescent; human figures arevariously habited ; animals are said to be armed with the horns,or the appendages provided for them by nature for their defenceor for aggressive purposes. Similar appropriate terms indicatethe circumstances under which figures and objects of all kindsappear in heraldic compositions, together with their individualpeculiarities, details, and accessories. These terms are classifiedand explained in Chapters TX., X., XL, XII., and XIII. il. -i8q. No. 4. No. 5. Heraldic Sliields. CHAPTER III. THE SHIELD, AND ITS PARTS, POINTS, AND PPvIMARY DIVISIONS; ANDDIVIDING AND BORDER LINES. The Shield, the most important piece of their defensive armour,was derived by the knights of the middle ages from remoteantiquity, and at almost all times it has been decorated withsome device or figure. The ancient Greek tragedian, ^schylus(about 600), describes with minute exactness the devicesthat were borne by six of the seven chiefs who, before theTrojan War, besieged Thebes. The seventh shield is speciallynoted to have been uncharged. In the middle ages, in Europe,there prevailed a precisely similar usage; and, indeed, so uni-versal was the practice of placing heraldic insignia upon shields,that the shield has been retained in modem Heraldry as beinginseparable from all Heraldry, so that it still continues to bethe figure upon which the heraldic insignia of our own timesare habitually charged. Early heraldic Shields vary very considerably in
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