| Term | Description |
| Eagle | The eagle plays an important part in heraldry in almost every part of the globe. The eagle is generally borne displayed; that is, upright, breast to the front, and legs, tail and wings expanded (commonly called a "spread eagle"). |
| Eared | Applied to animals borne with the ears of a different color from that of the body. In such a case the animal is said to be "eared of" such a color or metal |
| Edged | Applied to an ordinary to denote that the edging is placed only between the ordinary and the field, and not where it joins the escutcheon |
| Effare | Said of an animal when represented as rearing on its hind legs from fright or rage |
| Elevated | Applied to the wings of a bird when upright and expanded |
| Embattled | Indented like a battlement. The notch in a parapet is called an embrazure, and the intermediate piece of masonry a merlon. When a second and smaller merlon is placed on the first the battlement is said to be stopped.
EMBATTLED COUNTER-EMBATTLED - Embattled on both faces of the ordinary. EMBATTLED GRADY - One embattlement upon another. |
| Embordered | Having a border of the same tincture as the field |
| Embowed | Bent or bowed |
| Embraced | Braced together; bound or tied together |
| Embroidery | A term applied to a hill or mount with several copings or rises and falls |
| Embrued | Said of the mouths of beasts when bloody from devouring their prey; also applied to a weapon represented as covered or sprinkled with blood. |
| Empaled | This is a term used to describe a shield in which coats of arms are placed side by side, each occupying one-half the escutcheon. The shield is divided by a line down the center (per pale). The arms of the husband are placed on the dexter side, and those of the wife on the sinister. |
| Empalement | Two coats of arms placed on a shield palewise |
| Enclave | Anything which is represented as let into something else, particularly when the bearing so let in is square |
| Endorse | One of the diminutives of the pale, being one-eighth the breadth of that ordinary. The endorse is used only in pairs - one on each side of the pale. This subordinary, like the pallet, was unknown in ancient heraldry. |
| Endorsed | A pale having an endorse on each side |
| Enfiled | Used to describe a sword drawn as transfixing the head of a man or animal, a coronet or other object |
| Englislet | An escutcheon of pretense |
| Engoulee | An epithet applied to a bend, cross, saltire, etc., when the ends enter the mouths of lions, tigers or other animals |
| Engrailed | Indented in a series of curves. This is applied to one of the partition lines, as well as to some bends, etc. |
| Enhanced | Applied to an ordinary when removed from its proper position and placed higher up in the field |
| Enmanche | Covered with or resembling a sleeve. Said when the chief has lines drawn from the center of the upper edge to the sides to about half the breadth of the chief. [MAUNCH.] |
| Eradicated | A tree torn up by its roots |
| Ermine | One of the furs used in blazoning, representing the skin of the little animal of that name. A field of ermine is white with black spots of a particular shape. |
| Ermines | The reverse of Ermine, being white spots on a black field. (Sometimes described as counter-ermine.) |
| Erminites | The same as Ermine, but with one red hair on each side of the ermine spots |
| Erminois | The same as Ermine, except that the field is gold and the spots black |
| Escallop | The figure of a scallop shell |
| Escarbuncle | A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone carbuncle, being a cross of eight rays set with knobs and the arms ending in fleur-de-lis. In another representation of this bearing the ends are connected by cross-bars. (Also called Carbuncle.) |
| Escutcheon | The shield, on which all lines are drawn and charges delineated; the background on which coat armor is represented; known in blazon as the field.
ESCUTCHEON OF PRETENSE - A small shield bearing the arms of an heiress placed in the center of her husband's shield, instead of being impaled with his arms. |
| Escutcheoned | Having a coat of arms; supplied with an escutcheon; placed in an escutcheon |
| Essorant | Said of a bird represented with its wings half open, as if preparing to take flight |
| Estoile | A star with six wavy points. It is different from a mullet , the later having only five points, and these are straight |
| Eyrant | Applied to eagles or other birds in their nests |