[Illustration: No. 230.--A Collar of York.]
[Illustration: No. 231.--A Collar of Lancaster.]
_College of Arms_, or _Heralds' College_. (See _Herald_.)
_Colour._ See Chapter V., page 41. The term "_Colours_" is applied to Flags, particularly to those of infantry regiments, and to such as are displayed at sea. (See Chapter XVII.)
_Combatant._ Two lions, or other animals of prey, rampant and face to face.
_Compartment._ In Scottish Heraldry, "a kind of carved panel, of no fixed form, placed below the escutcheon, bearing the supporters, and usually inscribed with a motto or the name and designation of the owner." --_Seton._ Other objects placed below the shield are met with under this description.
_Componée_, _Compony_, or _Gobony_. A single row of small squares alternately of two tinctures or furs: No. 66. (See _Counter Componée_.)
_Complement, In her._ Applied to the moon when full.
_Compound Quartering._ The quartering of a quarter, or division of a quartered Coat-of-Arms. (See page 34.)
_Compound Arms._ Arms formed from the combination of the bearings of two or more distinct coats, to produce a single compound coat.
_Conjoined in Lure._ Two wings united, their tips in base.
_Contoise._ A flowing scarf, worn attached to the helm before 1350. Two examples occur in effigies in Exeter Cathedral, and another in Westminster Abbey.
_Cornish Chough._ A bird like a crow, black, with red beak and legs.
_Coronet._ An ensign of rank worn upon the head, in use in England from about the middle of the fourteenth century, but without any distinctive tokens of gradations of rank until a later period. In modern times English Coronets have enclosed a velvet cap with a bullion tassel. This cap originated in the cap of estate worn by Peers. (See _Prince_, _Duke_, _Marquess_, _Earl_, _Viscount_, and _Baron_.)
_Cotise._ A diminutive of the Bend or other Ordinary, being one-fourth of their width. _Cotised_. When a Bend or Chevron is placed between two Cotises, or when a Fesse or Bar is placed between two Barrulets. Nos. 114, 115.
_Couchée._ Said of a Shield when suspended from the sinister extremity of the chief, or when placed as if it were so suspended. No. 49.
_Count_, _Countess_. _Count_, in Latin "Comes," the same as Earl. _Countess_, the wife of an Earl: she is "Right Honourable," and styled "My Lady": her coronet is the same as that of an Earl.