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 PIT I02 POI Pitchfork. P. 39, f. 14. No. 3. Pitch-pot. See Beacon. PiTHON. A winged serpent. Placcate. a piece of armour worn over the breast-plate to strengthen it. Placque. An Herald's Tabard. Plaice. A fish. P. 32, f, 20. Plain. An ordinary is sometimes (al- though not necessarily) blazoned plain, when charged with another) engrailed. Plain Point. P. 21, f. 5. Plaisse, or Plaissa. See Palisse. Plaited. Fretted or interlaced. Plane. A Joiner's tool. P. 41, f. 36. Planet. The Astronomical symbol of Mars, Uranus and Venus, are borne by the families of Wimble, Herschel and Thoyts. P. 23, f. 45. Planets. Used by some heralds to blazon the arms of Kings. See P. i. Plants. In great variety are found in coat armour, e.g. Cyanus, Fern, To- bacco, etc. P. 44. Planta-genista, or broom, sprig, and flower. P. 25, f. 6 and 9. Plasterers' hammer. P. 41, f. 26. Plate. A round, flat piece of silver. P. I. Plattee. Strewed Avith Plates. Same as semee of plates. Platted, or Plaited. Interlaced, or tied. Playing Tables. P. 42, f. 32. Also termed Back-gammon tables. Playing top. P. 42, f. 29. Plenitude. This term is applied to the moon when in her complement. P- 23, f. 37. Plie. The same as close applied to birds with the wings close to the body. Plough. P. 39, f. 7. Plough-paddle. P. 39, f. 8. Plough-share, or Coulter. P. 39, f. 10. Ploye. Bowed or bent, sometimes applied to a serpent when nowed. Plover. P. 34, f. 49. Plumb-Rule, and Plumb-Rule reversed. See Plummet. P. 41, f. 38. Plumbers' cutting knife. P. 41, f. 19. Plumbers' Triangular solderingiron. i.d Plumby. Same as purple. Plume of Ostrich Feathers. P. 43, f. 38. A Plume of Feathers consists of three. If more, it must be expressed as a plume of such a number. The plume of five feathers is also termed a bush of feathers. Some- times one plume is placed above another, it is then termed either a double plume, or a plume of two heights. If conii^osed of thrco rows, one above the oth^r, it is termed a triple plume, or a plume of thi-oe heights, and should V)e composed of twelve feathers, of v.'hich fivo are plaeed in the bottom row, four in the next, and three in the top row. If the (juills are of a different tincture from the feathers the tincture must be named, a.uil the feather is termed either quilled, penned, or shafted. P. 25, f. 22 and 23. See also P. 43, f. 3S, 39 and 40. The Badge of the Prince of Wales consists of a plume cf ostrich feathers ar. quilled or., entiled with a prince's coronet of the last, with nnescroll az, thereon the words " Ich Dien " in gold. I'. 6, f. 21. See Panache. Plumed. Feathered. Plumetty. When the field is divided into fusils, filled with the ends of feathers, and depicted in metal and colour, alternately. The proper blazon of which, says Edmondson, is fusily or. and gu., diapered with feathers countercharged. Pluming, or Pruning. Applied to birds when dressing their feathers. An eagle pluming, borne by the name of Rous. Plummet. An instrument used by masons, etc. P. 41, f. 38. Pod, or Cod. The case of seeds. P. 44, f. 59. Poesy. A motto. Poignard. a short sword. Point, Base, Baste, or Base-Bar. Is the base of the shield cut off by a horizontal line, and blazoned a Plain Point. P. 21, f. 5. The Point may be of any of the accidental forms of lines, as a Point wavy, borne by the name of Hawkins, f. 43. When borno Pointed it should be so ex- pressed, as a Point Pointed, f. 2. It miiy be on either side of the escutcheon, and is then termed a Point dexter, or sinister. Point Based, f. 24. Point Ch.ampaine, Champion, or a Base-ciiausse. f. 6. Point Convexed. f. ig. Point Dexter, or a Point Dexter-parted, f. I. Point Escartelled. f. 17. A plain Point with a square piece cut out, or notched in the centre of the up} cr line. A Point wath one embattlement diffeis from the last in having a } rojection of a square form instead of an indenture, f. 18. Point in Point. Also termed a Graft and Gusset, f. 4. Point pointed fleury. f. 16. Point pointed Invecked. f. 9. PoiNTpointedon the top apommel. f. 14. Point pointed Removed, f. 8. Point pointed Reversed, f. 3. Point pointed reversed bottony at end. I. 15.