Accollée. Placed side by side.
Accosted. Side by side.
Achievement, or Achievement of Arms. Any complete heraldic composition.
Addorsed. Back to back.
Affrontée. So placed as to show the full face or front.
Alerion. A name sometimes given by early Heralds to the heraldic Eagle, which, when blazoned under this title, was also sometimes drawn without legs or beak. (See p. 97.)
Ambulant. In the act of walking.
Annulet. A plain ring; sometimes blazoned as a “false roundle”: in modern English cadency, the difference of the fifth son or brother: [No. 154].
Annulettée. Ending in Annulets.
Antelope. Depicted by early Heralds in a conventional manner, but now generally rendered more naturally, the earlier type being termed the heraldic antelope.