| Term | Meaning |
| Positions | |
| Couchant | Lying Down |
| Dormant | Sleeping |
| Embowed | Curved |
| Hauriant | A fish in an upright position |
| Lodged | |
| Naiant | Swimming |
| Passant | Walking |
| Rampant | |
| Rousant | |
| Salient | Springing |
| Sejant | Sitting |
| Soaring | |
| Statant | |
| Trippant | |
| Uriant | |
| Volent | |
| Colours | |
| Azure | |
| Gules | |
| Murrey | |
| Purpure | |
| Sable | |
| Sanguine | |
| Tenne | |
| Vert | |
| Furs | |
| Ermine | |
| Vair |
| Divisions of the Shield | |
| General Heraldic Terms | |
| Tierced | Divided into three. |
| Transfixed | Pierced through |
