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Windsor  Herald  -  One  of  the  Woodman  - An  alternative  name
                                                               for  wildrnan.
                             Officers of  Arms  (q-v.).
                             Wings - Unless othenvise stated the  Woolpack - A pack of  wool tied  on
                             whgs  of  an  eagle  are  generally  each  corner.
                             understood.  A  pair  of  wings  with
                             tips downwards  are said  to be  con-  Wreath  - See  torse.  The  six  fold
                             joined  in  lure,  if  the  tips  are  up-  band  placed  on  top  of  a  helm  in
                             wards  they  are  conjoined  and  an  achievement  upon  which  the
                                                               crest  stands  or  out  of  whicli  ii:
                             elevated.
                                                               issues.  It  is  said  to  represent  the
                             Wolf  - The  wolf  and  wolfs  bead  ' lady's  favour ' with  which  the old-
                             are seen as charges in several differ-  fashioned  knights  went  into  baétle.
                             en  t  positions.
                                                               Wyvern - One of  the rnonsters (q.v.1.
                             Women,  Bearing  of  arms by - Un-
                             married  daughters  by right  of  cour-
                             tesy  rnay  bear  their  paternal  arms
                             including  quarterings  and  any
                             marks  of  cadency  their  father  may
                             use  but they add  no mark of  difier-
                             ence  of  their  own. They  bear  these  YaIe  - An  animal  resembling  the
                             arms on a lozenge without  crest  or  stag  but  u~ith mouth  open  and
                             accessories but sometirnes a knot or  tongue  extendcd  and  bcaring  the
                             ribbon  may  be  draped  over the top  horns  of  a  bull.
                             for  reasons  of  decoration.
                               An  unmarried  woman  holding  Yellow  ochre  - The colour  gencr-
                             office. as.  for example.  the principal  ally  used  to  depict  the  goId  in
                             of  a  college, rnay  impaIe  Lhe  arms  Heraldic  painting.
                             of  the  college  wjlh  her  own  on  a
                             lozenge  during  the  time  she  holds  York  Herald  - One  of  the  Officers
                             that  office.  A  married  woman  im-  of  Arms  (q.v.).
                             pales  her  paternal  arms  with  those
                             of  ber husband  upon  a  shield.
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