See the words CROSS, CROSSLETS, in the Dictionary.


THE SALTIER.

The _saltier_ was formed by making two pieces of riband cross
diagonally, having the appearance of the letter X, or, speaking
heraldically, the bend and bend sinister crossing each other in the
centre of the shield. The saltier, if uncharged, occupies one-fifth of
the field; if charged, one-third.

[Illustration: Saltier]

Ex. Gules, a saltier, argent.

Like the cross, the saltier may be borne engrailed, wavy, &c., and the
termination of the arms of the saltier varied; but there are not so
many examples of the variation of the form in the saltier as in the
cross.




CHAP. V.

SUBORDINATE ORDINARIES.


In order more particularly to distinguish the subordinates in an army