Imagines Majorum, R. Portraits of ancestors, or family portraits; they usually consisted of waxen masks, which were kept in the cases of an armarium or in an ædicula; or small statues which were carried before the corpse in a funeral procession.
Imbrex, R. A ridge-tile of semi-cylindrical form, and thus distinct from the tegula, which was a flat tile. It was called imbrex from its collecting the rain (imber). Imbrex supinus was the name given to a channel or gutter formed of ridge-tiles laid on their backs.
Imbrications. Architectural ornaments which take the form of fishes’ scales, or of segmental ridge-tiles (imbrices) which overlap; whence the name given to them.
Imbricatus, R. Covered with flat and ridge-tiles (tegulæ and imbrices).
Imbrothered, O. E. Embroidered.
Imbrued, Her. Stained with blood.
Immissarium, R. (immitto, to send into). A stone basin or trough; any receptacle built upon the ground for the purpose of containing water supplied from the castellum.
Fig. 395. Device of Philip and Mary. Arms of Tudor and Aragon Impaled (Rayonnant).
Impale, Her. To conjoin two separate coats of arms on one shield (as a husband’s and wife’s, &c.). The device of Queen Mary (Fig. [395]) is the impalement of the double Tudor rose with the arms of Catherine of Aragon.