The lion is the most common animal charge used in heraldry. Lions are usually depicted in a very stylised manner, and there are different names applied the different postures and other variations. Some but by no means all, are shown below.
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rampant |
langued tongue coloured |
armed claws coloured |
mornee or disarmed without tongue, teeth or claws |
maned mane coloured |
dismembered |
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defamed tail missing |
cowed or coward tail between legs |
double queued two tails |
queue fourchy forked tail |
queue fourchy en saltire forked and crossed tail |
queue nowed knotted tail |
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rampant guardant facing outward |
rampant reguardant facing the rear |
rampant sinister facing the right |
statant standing |
statant guardant standing facing outward |
statant sinister standing, facing right |
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passant passing, walking |
passant guardant facing outward |
passant reguardant facing the rear |
passant sinister walking to the right |
salient leaping upward |
courant running |
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sejant sitting |
sejant erect sitting erect |
couchant lying down |
dormant | double-headed |
head couped cut off straight |
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rampant, brandishing sword |
crowned |
head erased torn off with ragged edge |
head erased and crowned |
face or head guardant facing outward |
face or head guardant and crowned |
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combatant face-to-face |
addorsed back-to-back |
counter passant walking past each other |
Charges