The manual of heraldry : being a concise description of the several terms used, and containing a dictionary of every designation in the science. Illustrated by four hundred engravings on wood (1800)
Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL, Boston Public Library (John Adams Library) BRL · London : Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. ... · leaf 19
^ranged in lines in such a manner,that the base argent is opposite tothe base azure. CouNTER-vAiR, is when the bellsare placed base against base, andpoint against point. Potent—an obsolete word for a crutch:it is so called in Chaucers descrip-tion of Old Asre. So eld she was that she ne wentA…
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