it is called a moon in her
complement.

COMPONY. A term applied to a bordure, pale, bend, or any other
ordinary, made up of squares of alternate metal and colour.

[Illustration: Compony]

Ex. Argent, an inescutcheon azure, border compony, or and gules.

CONJOINED. Joined together.

[Illustration: Conjoined]

Ex. Argent, three legs armed, conjoined at the fess point at the upper
extremity of the thigh, flexed in a triangle, garnished and spurred,
or.

CONY. An heraldic name for a young rabbit.

[Illustration: Cony]

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

[Illustration: Cotice]

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.

[Illustration: Counter-changed]

Ex. Per pale, or and azure, on a chevron, three mullets all
counter-changed.

COUNTER SALIENT. Two animals leaping different ways from each other.

[Illustration: Counter salient]

Ex. Argent, two foxes counter salient.

COUNTER PASSANT. Two animals passing the contrary way to each other.

[Illustration: Counter passant]

Ex. Or, two lions passant counter passant gules, the uppermost facing
the sinister side of the escutcheon, both collared sable, garnished
argent.

COUNTER FLORY. Any ordinary ornamented with fleurs-de-luce: the points
of the flowers run alternately in a contrary direction.

[Illustration: Counter flory]

Ex. Or, a pale purpure, flory and counter flory gules.

COUPED. From the French word _couper_, to cut. The cross in the
example is couped, part of it being cut off, so as not to touch the
edges of the shield.

[Illustration: Couped]

Ex. Azure, a cross couped argent.

COUPED. The head or limbs of any animal cut close is called couped.

[Illustration: Couped]

Ex. Argent, a boar's head proper couped.

COUPLE-CLOSE. One of the diminutives of the chevron, half the size of
the chevronel.

[Illustration: Couple-close]

Ex. Argent, three couple-close