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 TRA 1^5 TRE Tramels. a kind of shoe. See Brogue. Trammels. Same as the above. Trailing-pike, or leading staff, tasselled as in the armorial bearings of the Artillery Company, London. P. 41, f-59. Traits. Pieces. See P. 6, f. 24. Tranche. The same as Per Bend. Trangle. a diminutive of the fesse ; by some it is called a hay, by others a closet. Transfixed. Pierced through. P. 16, f. 17; P. 42, f. 3. Transfluent. Applied to water as it running through a bridge. P. 23, f. ig and 20. Transmuted. Counterchanged. Transparency, or Transparent. Painted in shadow. See Adumbrated. Transpierced. The same as Trans- fixed. Transposed. Reversed, or turned con- traryways. Transverse, Traverse, or Doublet. According to Guillim is a bearing resembling a cheveron, which issues from two angles of one side of the shield, and meets in a point about the middle of the other side. P. 21, f. 41. It may issue from either side, dexter or sinister, the point should be mentioned in the blazon. Traverse, or Transverse. Across the escutcheon horizontally. Traverse in Point. P. 6, f. 31. Traversed. Facing the sinister. Traversed. Lying across, as two sceptres in saltire, traversed by a sword in pale. P. 42, f. 47. Treble-cross Staff, or Papal-staff. P. 42, f. 48. Treble-flat-brush. P. 41, f. 42. Trecheur. See Tressure. Tree. Trees in great variety are met with in Coat Armour, e.g. The Alder, Almond, Apple. Aspen, Ash, Ban- yan, Beech, Birch, Box, Cedar, Cherry, Cocoa, Cotton, Cypress, Date, Elm, Fir, Haivthorn, Linden or Lime, Mahogany, Oak, Olive, Orange, Palm, Pear, Pine, Pollard-Willow, Paradise (Tree of). Poplar, Salix, Savin, Thorn, Walnut, Willoiv, Yeiv, etc. See P. 45, f. 31 to 60, and P. 22, f. 7. In blazoning a Tree you must observe in what condition it appears, whether spread, or blasted; and what kind of Tree it is, whether bearing fruit ; if so, it is termed Fmcted. If a part only i^ borne, that part must be named as Stem, Stock, or Stump, Jiritnches, FruH, Leaves. The Stem, Stoek, or Stump, must be described, if standing, as " erect " ; if fallen, as "jacent " ; if torn up by the roots, as " eradicated" ; if shoot- ing forth leaves, as "sprouting," etc. P. 4o, f. 50 and 57. A branch with fruit is said to be fructed ; if with leaves only, it is termed a branch ; when without leaves, it is said to be withered, f. u8 ; if torn off, it is called slipped. P. 44, f. 56. A branch, if fructed, is always supposed to consist of four leaves. P. 44, f. 53. If unfructed of nine leaves, i.e. three slips set together on one stem. A sprig should have live leaves, and a slii) only three. P. 44, f. 52. Tree, Stem of, erased and sprouting. P. 45, f. 56. Tree, Stock or Stump of, snagged and erased, i.d. Tree, Stock of, jacent eradicated, i.d. t- 57- Tree, Stem of, couped, eradicated, and sprouting, i.d. Tree, Starved or Blighted, i.d. f. 58. Treflee. Abendtreflee, as in the arms of the Prince of Wales. P. 16, f. 40. See Rue Crown. Treflee of Trefoils. Semee of Trefoils Trefoil. Three leaved grass. P. 44, f. 14, No. I. Trefoil fitched. No. 2. Slipped and Raguled. No. 3. Treble slipped. No. 4. Double slipped. No. 5. Trefoil, double slipped raguled couped. P. 44, f. 15, No. I. Trefoil stalked, fixed to a twig fesseways. No. 2. Treille, or Trillise. A Lattice, or Trellis, a pattern resembling fretty, but always nailed at each intersection ; also termed TreUised clone. P. 22, f. 37. Trenchant. Cutting, or brandishing. Trenching Knife, as borne by Trench- ard. P. 41, f. 22. Same as Pruning Knife. Trepan. A surgical instrument. P. 42, f. 50. Tressure, or Treschur. The tressure passes round the field in the same shape as the shield. When impaled, it is always to be omitted on the side next the line of impalement. P. 31, f. g. It is always borne double and flory counterflorv as in the royal Arms of Scotland. "This is sometimes blazoned the Royal Tressure, or the Tressure of Scotland. P. 2, f. 43 ; P. 31, f. 11; P. 35' f- 16. Tressure Fl ^.ure. Same as Tressure. Tressure Flory Counterflory, on a bordure. P. 35' f- i^. Tressure Counter Flowered. Same as Tressure-counter-flory.