badge decorative device identifying a family often borne by retainers, e.g. on livery
baillond used of a lion holding a staff in its mouth
banded encircled with a band or riband
bar a horizontal division occupying one fifth of the shield
barbed the leaves surrounding a full-blown rose are called barbs
barnacles instruments used by farriers to curb horses (see breys)
baron and femme (per) the impalement of the arms of husband and wife
bars gemel two bars or barrulets placed parallel to each other (see gemel)
barrulet diminutive of bar
barry or barruly used of a field or charge divided by horizontal lines
base the lower part of a shield
basilisk a monster like a wyvern or cockatrice but with a dragon's head at the end of its tail
basnet or basinet a helmet
baton a shape like a truncheon, generally a mark of bastardy, unlike a bend it is couped or cut short of the shield's edges
battled arrondie denotes that a battlement is rounded at the top
battled-imbattled one battlement on another
beacon anciently used to warn against the approach of an enemy and to alarm the country, it is represented as an iron grate or basket containing fire on the top of a high pole or pillar against which a ladder is placed (see fire beacon)
beaked (see armed)
bearing applicable to any single charge or heraldic device
beaver the part of a helmet which protects the face (see visor)
bend a division of a shield formed by two diagonal lines from the dexter chief to the sinister base
bend sinister a bend issuing from the sinister chief
bendlet half-size diminutive of bend
bendy used of a field or charge divided diagonally into four or more even-numbered parts
bezant a Byzantine gold coin represented as a round flat piece of gold without impress
bezanté semée of bezants
billets rectangles
billeté semée of billets
bird-bolt a small blunt-headed arrow
blazon rules under which coats of arms are drawn up and also used to describe a coat of arms in correct heraldic language
bordure a uniform edge to a shield occupying one fifth of the field
botonnée used of a cross whose tips resemble trefoils
bouget a vessel to carry water (see gorge or gurge and water bouget)
bowed embowed or arched braced linked together (see interlaced)
breys instruments used by farriers to curb horses (see barnacles)
brimsey a gad-fly
brassarts or brassets armour for the elbows and arms
burgonet a steel cap worn in battle