_Pheon._ A pointed arrow-head, borne with the point in base, unless the contrary is specified, No. 287. _Phœnix._ A fabulous eagle, always represented as issuant from flames. _Pile._ One of the Ordinaries, in form like a wedge, Nos. 126, 127, 128. _In Pile._ Arranged after the form of a pile. _Planta Genista._ The broom plant badge of the Plantagenets, No. 21. _Plate._ A silver roundle. _Plenitude._ The moon when full. See No. 166. _Plume._ See _Panache_. _Points of Shield._ No. 27. _In Point_ is the same as _In Pile_. _Pomme._ A green roundle. _Popinjay._ A parrot (H. 3). _Port._ A gateway, as the entrance to a castle: No. 222. _Portcullis._ A defence for a gateway, No. 288: the badge of the Houses of BEAUFORT and TUDOR, borne by the former with the significant motto, “_Altera securitas_” (additional security). _Potent._ A variety of the heraldic cross, No. 108; also a Fur, No. 64. _Powdered_, _Poudrée_. The same as _Semée_. _Preying._ When an animal devours its prey. See _Trussing_. _Prince_, _Princess_. In this country the rank and title of the members of the Royal Family. Their style is “Your Royal Highness.” The Coronet of the Prince of Wales differs from the crown of the King, only in having a single arch instead of two intersecting arches: No. 289. The coronets of the Princes and Princesses, the sons and daughters of the King, are the same as the coronet of the Prince of Wales, but without any arch: No. 290. The coronets of the Princes and Princesses, the grandchildren of the Sovereign, differ in having the circlet heightened with two crosses patée, as many strawberry leaves, and four fleurs-de-lys, No. 291. Other Royal coronets have the circlet heightened with four crosses patée, and as many strawberry leaves. No. 292. For the arms of their Royal Highnesses, see Chapter XVIII. _Purfled._ Lined and bordered or garnished. _Purpure._ A colour: No. 56. _Pursuivant._ A Herald of the lowest rank. In the Middle Ages, these officers were attached to the households of personages of high rank, and bore titles generally taken from the armorial insignia of their lords. _Quadrate._ A form of cross: No. 94. _Quarter._ The first (from the dexter chief) of the divisions of a shield that is parted per cross, as in No. 30; also any other division of a shield, to be specified in blazoning. See No. 36, and _Canton_. _Quartering._ Marshalling two or more coats of arms in the different quarters of the same shield. When two coats are thus quartered, the one in the first quarter is repeated in the fourth, and the one in the second in the third; when three are quartered, the first quartering is repeated in the fourth quarter. Any required number of coats may be quartered on the same principle. This same term is also applied to denote the dividing a shield “_quarterly_,” as in No. 30, or into more than four divisions, as in No. 36.