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1. Bend flamant on the skies, or on fire, or fired on the sides.  

2. Bend nowy has but one semicircular projection on each side.  

3. Bend nowy urdy, has a projection on each side like a single battlement with the top pointed.

4. Bend nowy lozengy, with one projection on each side forming parts of the lozenge.     

5. Bend double nowyed merely differs from the last in having two projections instead of one.

6. Bend treble nowyed, having three semicircular projections on each side.

7. Bend nowy quadrate, or quadrangled; it is likewise termed a bend single bretessed, or might be called a bend with one embattlement on each side.

8. Bend  escloppé or nowy crenelled (also termed escartelé by Colombiere and Berry), being the reverse of nowy quadrate, has a crenelle or indenture cut into it on each side.

9. Bend dancetté, (Fr. danché and dentellé) having large indents.

10. Bend downsett, also termed fracted, ramped, etc., in which a segment of the charge is pushed out to one side or the other.

11. Bend fracted or removed, also called double downsett and once oddly blazoned a bend double dancetté by some ancient heralds. It is formed by dividing the bend by a line paleways, and so positioning the two severed parts as to align the lower line of one with the upper line of the other.

12. Bend esclatté or eradicated,  that is splintered or broken, but whether at the upper or lower end should be particularly expressed, as it may be thus torn off at either extremity.

13. Bend fusil is a bend formed of fusils placed side by side, and some heralds express the number of which it is composed. Bends of this sort are sometimes composed of fusils alternately of different metals and colours, but more generally of one or the other.

14. Bend fusilly has its surface divided in the form of fusils but, unlike the bend fusil, without altering the outward shape of the bend.

15. Bend mascle. This bend differs only from that of the lozenge in being voided, having the field seen through the middle; the observations as to their number and placing  mentioned anent to the bend fusil equally apply to this bearing.

16. Bend lozenge is formed of lozenges, which differ from the fusil in not being so long and having the angles less obtuse and acute. observations as to their number and placing  mentioned anent to the bend fusil equally apply to this bend.

17. Bend embattled  having embattlements only on one side

18.  Bend bretessed, each merlon arched and extended to the side of the shield. The blazon  bend bretessed nue is sometimes encountered to describe this term.

19. Bend embattled counter-embattled. That is embattled on both sides, with the projections on one side placed opposite the indents of the other.

20. Bend bretessed is embattled on both sides, but the projecting battlements stand opposite to each other, and differs from a bend embattled counter-embattled, where each projection is opposed to an indenture.

21. Bend bretessed, or embattled parted or biparted.

22. Bend grady of three or bend griece, by some termed double escartelé; but to prevent error, the point of the shield to which it decreases should be named as it might be placed either way.

23. Bend embattled grady is formed of battlements one above another in imitation of steps.  Also termed bend escartelé grady.

24. Bend enhanced, that is, raised higher than its usual place, towards the sinister chief, called also a bend in chief sinister. This term would also apply to the bendlet, as illustrated.

25. Bend charged with three chevrons. In charges of this sort, the points of the chevron must be placed on the middle of the bend.

26. Bend hemisphere, or bend archy, adorned with six of the celestial signs of the zodiac, then termed the hemisphere, hemi-zodiac or circle of the zodiac; being half of the zodiac circle, and as much as can be seen of the celestial globe at one view. When only three of the signs are shown, it is called a bend containing the fourth part of the zodiac. The illustration exhibits a bend   sinister archy, with three of the signs,  Libra, Leo, and Scorpio upon it.

27. Demi bend, as the term implies, consists of one half of the bend couped at the middle but whether the upper or lower half should be particularly expressed. The direction of the cut should also be stated, whether palewise as illustrated or per bend sinister.

28. Bend couped or humetté does not join the sides of the shield but is cut off at the extremities, not by a direct transverse line, but couped in the form and following the outline of the shield.

29. Bend traverse counterpointed is a meandering bend which, according to Randle Holme, may derive its name from the resemblance it bears to a trench or outwork of a camp made by soldiers when besieging a fort, etc. to prevent the enemy from sallying out upon them.  

30. Bend raguly, or raguled, is jagged or notched in an irregular manner on the sides, representing the trunk of a tree with the limbs cut off, and supposedly used as a scaling ladder.  A typical blazon would state two bends raguly the lower couped.

31. Bend wiure, or more properly termed a wiure in bend, as it may be said to differ from the bendlet, cotise, or ribbon, the diminutives of the bend, being no thicker than a strong stroke of the pen. It may be borne wavy, nebuly, etc. but if considered as a charge, and not as the diminutive of an ordinary, when fixed, or extending to the extremities of the field, either in bend, fess or otherwise, it should be particularly expressed, as charges in general, when borne in such positions, do not reach the outer line of the shield.        

32. Bend engoulé, being the term for a bend, the ends of which enter the mouths of lions, leopards, dragons, etc.

33. The diminutives of the bend sinister are:

i. the scarpe which is one-half in breadth, and derived from the French word escarpe, a scarf, an ornament used by commanders, and worn over the left shoulder, across the body, and under the right arm.

 ii. the fissure or staff, being one-fourth of the width of the bendy sinister. 

34. Bend archy coronetted takes the form of an arched coronet placed bendwise.  It is sometimes called crancelin though the latter exhibits more peculiar characteristics.

35. Crancelin.  A coronet extended in bend. This charge is also blazoned a bend treflé or Wreath of Rue.

36. Bend cotised (or between cotises) has on each side the diminutive of the bend, called a cotise, being one-fourth in width.  

Note. Although cotises are borne composed of all the various lines in other ordinaries, they are generally borne plain on the side next to the ordinary which they accompany, and are so understood when nothing is expressed to the contrary, excepting when wavy, or dancetté. It would be well in all other instances to blazon them engrailed, indented, etc. on both sides, or embattled, counter-embattled. etc.

37.  Bend double cotised, that is, having two cotises on each side.

38. Bend treble  cotised, that is, having three cotises on each side.

39. Bend cotised potenté. having  with cotises having potents on the outer edge..

40. Bend double cotised potent counter-potent. Randle Holme, in his Academy of Armoury, does not make these cotised potent on both sides, but only on that which is opposed to its fellow.

41. Bend cotised dancette where the cotises take the form of dancette..

42. Bend cotised indented where the cotises take the form of indented.

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