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COAT ARMOUR, or Surcoat. A loose garment worn over the armour of a
knight; hence the term coat of arms. On this garment were emblazoned
the armorial bearings of the wearer.
[Illustration: Coat Armour]
COCKATRICE. A chimerical animal, a cock with a dragon's tail and
wings.
[Illustration: Cockatrice]
COLLARED. Having a collar. Dogs and inferior animals are sometimes
collared: the supporters and charges are generally said to be gorged.
See GORGED.
COMBATANT. A French word for fighting. See LION.
COMPLEMENT. The Heraldic term for the full moon. When this figure is
introduced as a charge in a coat of arms, it is called a moon in her
complement.
COMPONY. A term applied to a bordure, pale, bend, or any other
ordinary, made up of squares of alternate metal and colour.
[Illustration: Compony]
Ex. Argent, an inescutcheon azure, border compony, or and gules.
CONJOINED. Joined together.
[Illustration: Conjoined]
Ex. Argent, three legs armed, conjoined at the fess point at the upper
extremity of the thigh, flexed in a triangle, garnished and spurred,
or.
CONY. An heraldic name for a young rabbit.
[Illustration: Cony]
COTICE. One of the diminutives of the bend: cotices are generally
borne on each side of the bend.
[Illustration: Cotice]
Ex. Gules, a bend argent, coticed of the same.
The cotices are frequently of a different tincture from the bend they
cotice.
COUCHANT. The French word for lying down with the breast towards the
earth, and the head raised. See LION COUCHANT.
COUNT. A nobleman that was deputed by the king to govern a county or
shire: the title is not used in the British Peerage; his rank is equal
to an earl.
COUNTER. In Heraldry implies contrariety, as in the following
examples:--
COUNTER-CHANGED. The intermixture of metal with colours opposed to
each other.
[Illustration: Counter-changed]
Ex. Per pale, or and azure, on a chevron, three mullets all
counter-changed.
COUNTER SALIENT. Two animals leaping different ways from each other.
[Illustration: Counter salient]
Ex. Argent, two foxes counter salient.
COUNTER PASSANT. Two animals passing the contrary way to each other.
[Illustration: Counter passant]
Ex. Or, two lions passant counter passant gules, the uppermost facing
the sinister side of the escutcheon, both collared sable, garnished
argent.
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