When a portion of any animal is cut clean off, as in Fig. 114, it is said to be couped; but when it is ragged or torn, as in Fig. 115, it is erased. Particular attention must be paid, in blazoning part of an animal, to specify whether it be couped or erased.
Lions charged on an ordinary, or when there are two or more blazened on a shield, are frequently styled lioncels. A lion is armed of its teeth and claws, and langued of its tongue. It is always represented as armed and langued gules, unless the animal itself or the field be of that tincture, in which case it is armed and langued azure.
Bears, Tigers, Bulls, Boars, Wolves, Antelopes, Stags, Goats, Foxes, Badgers (called by heralds Grays), Talbots or hounds, Squirrels, and many other animals, are to be found blazoned as charges. Even the much-abused Ass is allowed to appear. The family of Hackwell bear as their arms, Or, an Ass's head erased, sable. The Askews, Hokenhulls, and Ayscoughs also bear this charge.
The Holy or Paschal Lamb is a lamb passant, supporting with its front sinister leg a banner bend sinisterwise, charged with a cross.
Almost all the terms applied to lions, are used in describing the position and attributes of other animals; the principal exceptions are the following:—
A stag passant is said to be tripping; when affrontée, at gaze; when salient, springing; when running, at speed or courant; and when sejant, lodged. It is attired, not armed, of its tynes, or horns.
Bulls, unicorns, and other animals having hoofs, are said to be unguled of them. An animal devour-
