_Lionced_ is a term seldom met with, but it is said to be applied (for example to a cross) when the arms end in lions' heads. I have yet to find an authentic example of the use of such a cross. When a bend or other ordinary issues from the mouths of lions (or other animals), the heads issuing from the edges or angles of the escutcheon, the ordinary is said to be "engouled." A curious term, of the use of which I know only one example, is "fleshed" or "flayed." This, as doubtless will be readily surmised, means that the skin is removed, leaving the flesh gules. This was the method by which the supporters of Wurtemburg were "differenced" for the Duke of Teck, the forepaws being "fleshed." {188} Woodward gives the following very curious instances of the lion in heraldry:-- "Only a single example of the use of the lioness as a heraldic charge is known to me. The family of COING, in Lorraine, bears: d'Azure, à une lionne arrêtée d'or. "The following fourteenth-century examples of the use of the lion as a heraldic charge are taken from the oft-quoted _Wappenrolle von Zurich_, and should be of interest to the student of early armory:-- * * * * * "51: END: Azure, a lion rampant-guardant argent, its feet or. "305. WILDENVELS: Per pale argent and sable, in the first a demi-lion statant-guardant issuant from the dividing line. "408. TANNENVELS: Azure, a lion rampant or, queué argent. "489. RINACH: Or, a lion rampant gules, headed azure. "A curious use of the lion as a charge occurs in several ancient coats of the Low Countries, _e.g._ in that of TRASEGNIES, whose arms are: Bandé d'or et d'azur, à l'ombre du lion brochant sur le tout, à la bordure engrêlée d'or. Here the ombre du lion is properly represented by a darker shade of the tincture (either of or or of azure), but often the artist contents himself with simply drawing the outline of the animal in a neutral tint. "Among other curiosities of the use of the lion are the following foreign coats:-- "BOISSIAU, in France, bears: De gueules, semé de lions d'argent. "MINUTOLI, of Naples: Gules, a lion rampant vair, the head and feet or. "LOEN, of Holland: Azure, a decapitated lion rampant argent, three jets of blood spurting from the neck proper. "PAPACODA, of Naples: Sable, a lion rampant or, its tail turned over its head and held by its teeth. "The Counts REINACH, of Franconia: Or, a lion rampant gules, hooded and masked azure (see above)."