The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition / Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science

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COTICE. One of the diminutives of the bend: cotices are generally borne on each side of the bend.

Ex. Gules, a bend argent, coticed of the same.

The cotices are frequently of a different tincture from the bend they cotice.

COUCHANT. The French word for lying down with the breast towards the earth, and the head raised. See [LION COUCHANT].

COUNT. A nobleman that was deputed by the king to govern a county or shire: the title is not used in the British Peerage; his rank is equal to an earl.

[ COUNTER]. In Heraldry implies contrariety, as in the following examples:—

[ COUNTER-CHANGED]. The intermixture of metal with colours opposed to each other.