_Gonfannon._ A long flag, pointed or swallow-tailed at the fly, and displayed from a transverse bar attached to a staff. _Gorged._ Encircled round the throat. _Gouttée_, _Guttée_. Sprinkled over with drops either of gold--_gouttée d’or_; of silver--_d’eau_; of blue--_de larmes_ (tears); of red--_de sang_ (blood); or of black--_de poix_ (pitch). _Grand Quarters._ The four primary divisions of a Shield, when it is divided _quarterly_: Nos. 30, 36, 37. The term “Grand Quarter” may be used to signify a primary quarter or division of a quartered Shield or Coat, and to distinguish such a quarter when _it is quartered_. _Grieces._ Steps. _Guardant._ Looking out from the field: Nos. 172, 174, 176, 187. _Guige._ A Shield-belt, worn over the right shoulder, and frequently represented in heraldic compositions as if sustaining a Shield of arms: Nos. 48, 49. _Gules._ Red: No. 53. [Illustration: No. 256.--Shield of R. de Gorges.] _Gurges_, or _Gorges_. A charge formed of a spiral line of blue on a white field, and supposed to represent a whirlpool: borne (H. 3) by R. DE GORGES: No. 256. _Gyron._ A Subordinary. _Gyronny_. A field divided into Gyrons: No. 147. (See page 70.) _Habited._ Clothed. _Hames_, _Heames_. Parts of horses’ harness. _Hammer_, or _Martel_. Represented in blazon much in the same shape as the implement in common use (H. 3). _Harp._ A device and badge of Ireland. The Irish Harp of gold with silver strings on a blue field forms the third quarter of the Royal Arms. _Hart._ A stag, with attires; the female is a _Hind_: page 81. _Hastilude._ A tournament. _Hatchment._ An achievement of arms in a lozenge-shaped frame, placed upon the front (generally over the principal entrance) of the residence of a person lately deceased. In the case of the decease of an unmarried person, or of a widower or widow, the whole of the field of the hatchment is painted black; but in the case of a married person, that part only of the field is black which adjoins the side of the achievement occupied by the armorial insignia of the individual deceased. Thus, if a husband be deceased, the dexter half of the field of the hatchment is black, and the sinister white; and so, in like manner, if the wife be deceased, the sinister is black and the dexter white. [Illustration: No. 257.--Hawk’s Lure.] [Illustration: No. 258.--Hawk’s Bells and Jesses.] _Hauriant._ A fish in pale, its head in chief. _Hawk’s bells, jesses, and lure._ A falconer’s decoy, formed of feathers with their tips in base, and joined by a cord and ring, No. 257; also bells with straps to be attached to hawks, No. 258. _Heightened._ Raised; placed above or higher. _Heights._ Applied to plumes of feathers which are arranged in rows or sets, one rising above another. See _Panache_.