Mascled, Masculy

Masculé

masculy counterchanged gu and arg

Composed of mascles; a shield or ordinary divided into lozenge-shaped compartments with voided centres and of alternate tinctures. See also Cross Masculy.

A bend mascled

When an ordinary is mascled, the outer form  is not altered, but the whole surface formed into mascles. Compare with the the bend mascle, below:

A bend mascle

The bend, fess and pale mascle, which is formed of a single row of mascles placed bendwise, fessways or palewise and should terminate with half mascles.

Cross moline masculy nowy

Masculy nowy: a projection of an ordinary forming a mascle.

Masculy and Lozengy
Masculy-lozengy, or rather masculy and lozengy, is when the field, ordinary or charge is covered over with mascles and lozenges alternately; or it may be blazoned by naming the tincture of the lozenges, as that of the field: for example, supposing the lozenges to be red and the mascles gold, the blazon then might properly run thus, arg masculy gu