- unicorn

Unicorn рус. единорог

фр. licorne

англ. unicorn

мифическое животное, известное как левый щитодержатель королевского герба, изображается как конь с прямым рогом во лбу, подобным такому у ибекса, хвост с щерстинами (tufted) подобно львиному. Есть в нескольких гербах и может быть показан trippant, sejant, salient, couchant, courant, climant, rampant, passant, и т.д. Иногда исп. только голова.

«Argent, a unicorn passant gules, armed or» – STANSAM, [From Glover's Ordinary.]

«Argent, on a bend sable three unicorns[one family bear calves] passant of the first» – VEALE.

«Argent, an unicorn rampant, [otherwise blazoned climant, also sejant,] sable, armed and unguled or» – HARLING, Suffolk.

«Or, an rampant sable» – HOYE.

«Gules, a fesse argent, in chief an unicorn courant or» – SWANSEY, co. Hereford.

«Argent, crucilly or, an unicorn couchant, tail erect argent» – DOON or DONNE.

«Argent, an unicorn salient sable, horned or» – KERR, Scotland.

«Quarterly, first and fourth; azure an unicorn salient argent, unguled, armed, and crined or within a bordure of the last, charged with eight thistles proper; second and third argent, three inescutcheons gules» – Robert Hay DRUMMOND, Bp. of S.Asaph, 1748; of Salisbury, 1761; and Abp. of York, 1761-76.

«Argent, a bend and in chief an unicorn's head erased sable» – DENNISTOUN.

«Ermine, a bend between two cotises; and in chief a unicorn's head couped; in base a cross crosslet fitchy gules» – Edmund DENISON, Bishop of Salisbury, 1837-54.

Находится в гербах фамилий: Cooke (Middlesex), Craftford (Worcester), Crole, Doane или Donne, Edwards (Cornwall), Edgebury, Faringdon (Devon), Flower (Oxon), Hunnis (Middlesex), Layer (Norfolk и Essex), Meldrum, Misterton, Meautys (Essex), O'neylan (Ireland), Steede, Styleman (Wilts), Trevithick (Cornwall), Wilkinson. Unicorn's heads» – Beverley (York), Chevalier (Scotland), Crosby, Freeling, Godley (Leitrim), GOFTON (Surrey), James (Surrey), Overton (Bp. of Lichfield), Parish, Preston (Scotland), Shelley, Smith (Binderton, Sussex), Smyth-Bartelott (Sussex), Smith (Stockton on Trent), Womvill.

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Единорог (геральд.)