Children, it may be here noted, are seldom met with in armory, but instances will be found in the arms of Davies, of Marsh, co. Salop ["Sable, a goat argent, attired or, standing on a child proper swaddled gules, and feeding on a tree vert"], of the Foundling Hospital ["Per fesse azure and vert, in chief a crescent argent, between two mullets of six points or, in base an infant exposed, stretching out its arms for help proper"], and in the familiar "bird and bantling" crest of Stanley, Earls of Derby. Arms and hands are constantly met with, and have certain terms of their own. A hand should be stated to be either dexter (Fig. 257), or sinister (Fig. 258), and is usually blazoned and always understood to be couped at the wrist. If the hand is open and the palm visible it is "apaumé" (Figs. 257 and 258), but this being by far the most usual position in which the hand is met with, unless represented to be holding anything, the term "apaumé" is not often used in blazon, that position being presumed unless anything contrary is stated. [Illustration: FIG. 256.--A woman's head and bust.] [Illustration: FIG. 257.--A dexter hand.] [Illustration: FIG. 258.--A sinister hand.] The hand is occasionally represented "clenched," as in the arms and crest of Fraser-Mackintosh. When the thumb and first two fingers are raised, they are said to be "raised in benediction" (Fig. 259). The cubit arm (Fig. 260), should be carefully distinguished from the arm couped at the elbow (Fig. 261). The former includes only about two-thirds of the entire arm from the elbow. The form "couped at the elbow" is not frequently met with. When the whole arm from the shoulder is used, it is always bent at {170} the elbow, and this is signified by the term "embowed," and an arm embowed necessarily includes the whole arm. Fig. 262 shows the usual position of an arm embowed, but it is sometimes placed embowed to the dexter (Fig. 263), upon the point of the elbow, that is, "embowed fesseways" (Fig. 264), and also, but still more infrequently, resting on the upper arm (Fig. 265). Either of the latter positions must be specified in the blazon. Two arms "counter-embowed" occur in many crests (Figs. 266 and 267). [Illustration: FIG. 259.--A hand "in benediction."] [Illustration: FIG. 260.--A cubit arm.] [Illustration: FIG. 261.--An arm couped at the elbow.] [Illustration: FIG. 262.--An arm embowed.] [Illustration: FIG. 263.--An arm embowed to the dexter.] [Illustration: FIG. 264.--An arm embowed fesseways.] [Illustration: FIG. 265.--An arm embowed the upper part in fesse.] [Illustration: FIG. 266.--Two arms counter-embowed.] [Illustration: FIG. 267.--Two arms counter-embowed and interlaced.]