_Rustre._ A mascle pierced with a circular opening: No. 144. _Sable._ The colour black: No. 54. _Sagittary._ The fabulous centaur, half man and half horse. [Illustration: Nos. 298, 299.--Heraldic Roses.] [Illustration: No. 300.--Rose en Soleil.] _Salamander._ An imaginary being, supposed to live in flames of fire; it is represented sometimes as a kind of lizard, and at other times (as in the crest of Earl DOUGLAS, A.D. 1483) as a quadruped somewhat like a dog, breathing flames. _Salient._ Leaping or bounding. _Saltire._ An ordinary, in form a diagonal cross: Nos. 120, 121, 122. _Saltire-wise_, or _in saltire_. Arranged after the form of a saltire. _Sanglier._ A wild boar. _Sans._ Without. “_Sans nombre_,” without any number fixed or specified. _Savage-man_, or _Wood-man_. A wild man, naked except large wreaths of leaves about his head and loins, and carrying a club. [Illustration: No. 301.--Crest of Hamilton.] _Saw_, or _Frame-saw_. Borne as the crest of HAMILTON, Duke of HAMILTON, which is thus blazoned--_Out of a ducal crest-coronet or, an oak-tree fructed and penetrated transversely in the main stem by a frame-saw ppr., the frame gold; above the crest the motto_, “THROUGH!” This device is said to commemorate the escape into Scotland, in 1323, of Sir GILBERT HAMILTON, a reputed ancestor of the present ducal house. At the court of EDWARD II. Sir Gilbert had unadvisedly expressed admiration for ROBERT BRUCE, on which JOHN LE DESPENCER struck him. Despencer fell in single combat the next day, and Hamilton fled, hotly pursued, northward. Near the border the fugitive and a faithful esquire joined some wood-cutters, assumed their dress, and commenced working with them on an oak, when the pursuers passed by. Hamilton, saw in hand, observed his esquire anxiously watching their enemies as they passed, and at once recalled his attention to his woodman’s duties by the word, “Through!”--thus, at the same time, appearing to consider the cutting down the oak to be far more important than the presence of the strangers. So they passed by, and Hamilton followed in safety. This crest does not appear in the Hamilton seals till long after the days of Bruce and his admirer, Sir Gilbert: No. 301. _Scarpe_, _Escarpe_. A diminutive of a _Bend sinister_. _Scintillant._ Emitting sparks. _Seax._ A Saxon sword. _Seeded._ Having seeds or seed-vessels, as in the centre of an heraldic rose. See Nos. 298-300. _Segreant._ A term applied to a griffin when rampant. _Sejant._ Sitting. _Semée._ Sown broadcast or scattered, without any fixed number, over the field; parts of the charge thus semée appearing at the border-lines of the composition. See Nos. 247, 250, 252. _Shake-fork._ Resembles the letter Y, but does not extend to the margin of the shield, and is pointed at its extremities. _Shamrock._ A trefoil plant or leaf, the badge of IRELAND. _Shield_, or _Escutcheon_. The Shield of Heraldry is fully described at page 32. See also Nos. 27, 39-49.