[Illustration: ERMINOIS]

ERMINOIS--field or, powdering sable.

[Illustration: PEAN]

PEAN--field sable; powdering, or.

ERMYNITES--Argent, powdered sable, with the addition of a single red
hair on each side the sable tufts. This fur is seldom seen in English
heraldry; and it is impossible to give an example without using
colour.

[Illustration: VAIR]

VAIR--argent and azure. It is represented by small bells, part
reversed, ranged in lines in such a manner, that the base argent is
opposite to the base azure.

[Illustration: COUNTER-VAIR]

COUNTER-VAIR, is when the bells are placed base against base, and
point against point.

[Illustration: POTENT]

POTENT--an obsolete word for a crutch: it is so called in Chaucer's
description of Old Age.

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