_Ship._ Sometimes blazoned as a modern vessel, but sometimes also as an ancient galley. See _Lymphad_. _Shoveller._ A species of duck. _Simple Quartering._ Dividing a shield quarterly, with the quartering of any of the quarters. See _Quartering_. _Sinister._ The left side. No. 27. _Sinople._ The colour _vert_ in French Heraldry. _Sixfoil._ A flower of six leaves: No. 302. _Slipped._ Having a stalk, as a leaf or branch: No. 309. _Spear._ The spear or lance is not of common occurrence in blazon; but it appears, with heraldic propriety, in the arms granted in 1596 to the father of the great poet, who bore--_Or, on a bend sa. a spear gold, the head arg._--the arms of SHAKESPEARE, No. 303. (In the woodcut the bend is accidentally shaded for _gules_, instead of _sable_.) [Illustration: No. 303.--Arms of Shakespeare.] _Spur._ Not common as an heraldic charge. Before about 1320 the spur had a single point, and was known as the “pryck-spur”; about that time appeared a “rouelle-spur” of simple form; in the middle of the fifteenth century spurs of extravagant length were introduced. _SS., Collar of._ See _Collar_, and No. 231. _Stafford-knot._ No. 304. _Stall-plate._ A plate bearing the arms of a knight and placed in his stall. The stall-plates of the Knights of the GARTER and the BATH are severally placed in the Chapels of ST. GEORGE and of HENRY VII., at Windsor and Westminster. The earliest plates now in existence at Windsor, though many of them bear arms of an earlier date, were executed about 1430. _Standard._ A long narrow flag, introduced for the purpose of heraldic display, in the time of EDWARD III., but not in general use till a later period. Standards generally had the Cross of ST. GEORGE next the staff, to which succeeded the badge or badges and the motto of the owner. See Chapter XVII. [Illustration: No. 302.--Sixfoil.] [Illustration: No. 304.--Stafford Knot.] [Illustration: No. 305.--Stapleton Badge.] _Staple._ Borne by STAPLETON: No. 305 represents a badge formed of two staples. _Statant._ Standing. _Star._ See _Estoile_ and _Mullet_; also a knightly decoration. _Stirrup._ Borne, with appropriate straps and buckles, by SCUDAMORE, GIFFARD, and a few others. _Stock._ The stump of a tree. _Stringed._ As a harp or a bugle-horn; or, suspended by, or fastened with, a string. _Sun._ When represented shining and surrounded with rays, he has a representation of a human face upon his disc, and is blazoned “_In splendour_.” _Sunbeams_, or _Rays_, are borne in blazon, and form an early charge. See _Collar_.