_Fleurettée_, _Florettée_. Terminating in, or bordered with, fleurs de
lys; also, _semée de lys_.
_Fleurie_, or _Fleury_. Ending as No. 100; also, _semée de lys_.
_Flexed._ Bowed, bent.
_Flighted._ Feathered, as arrows are.
_Fly._ The length, and also the side of a flag farthest from the staff.
_Foliated._ Crisped, or formed like a leaf.
_Fountain._ No. 153.
_Fourchée_, _Queue Fourchée_. A term applied to a lion with a forked
tail.
_Fret_, or _Frette_. A subordinary: No. 148. _Frettée_, _Fretty_:
covered with fretwork: No. 149.
_Fructed._ Bearing fruit or seeds.
_Furs._ See p. 41: Nos. 57-65.
_Fusil._ An elongated Lozenge: No. 20A, p. 70. _Fusillée_, or _Fusilly_.
A field entirely composed of Fusils, all lying in the same plane.
[Illustration: Nos. 254, 255.--Fylfot.]
_Fylfot._ A peculiar cruciform figure, supposed to have a mystic
signification, found in military and ecclesiastical decorations in
England, and on Eastern coins, &c.: Nos. 254, 255; the latter example is
from the monument of Bishop BRONSCOMBE, in Exeter Cathedral.
_Gad_, _Gadlyng_. A spike, knob, or other figure, projecting from the
knuckles of gauntlets.
_Galley._ An ancient ship. (See _Lymphad_.)
_Garb._ A sheaf of wheat; if of any other grain, this to be specified.
_Garnished._ Adorned in a becoming manner.
_Garter, Order of the._ See Chapter XIX.
_Garter King-of-Arms_. The chief of the official Heralds of England, and
officer of arms of the Order of the Garter. (See _Herald_.)
_Gemelles._ See _Bars Gemelles_.
_Gem-Ring._ A ring for the finger, set with a jewel.
_Genet._ A spotted animal, somewhat like a marten: a badge of Queen
JOANNA of Navarre.
_George, Saint._ The Patron Saint of England. The circumstances which
led to his association with England are unknown. His Shield of arms, _a
red cross on a silver field_, first appears in English Heraldry in the
fourteenth century: No. 1.
_George, The._ A mounted figure of the Saint in the act of piercing the
dragon with his lance, and worn as a pendant to the collar of the Order
of the Garter; added to the insignia of the Order, with the Collar, by
HENRY VII. The _Lesser George_ has the same group on an enamelled field,
and surrounded by the Garter of the Order, the whole forming a “jewel,”
generally oval in shape: it was introduced by HENRY VIII., and is now
worn pendent from the dark-blue ribbon of the Order, the ribbon passing
over the left shoulder and the jewel hanging on the right side of the
wearer. Originally, this “Lesser George” was worn from either a gold
chain or a black ribbon: by Queen ELIZABETH the colour of the ribbon was
changed to sky-blue, and it assumed its present darker hue in the reign
of CHARLES II.
_Gerattyng._ Differencing by the introduction of small charges. It is an
early term, now obsolete.
_Gimmel-ring._ Two annulets, interlaced.
_Girt_, _Girdled_. Encircled, or bound round.
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