| Per bend azure and argent, two compass stars counterpoised and issuant from the line. |
| This is because the charges on the shield duplicate the crest which in many cases is a demi-creature issuant from a crown. |
| A fabulous eagle, always represented as issuant from flames. |
| Shropshire's blazon is erminois, three pile azure, two issuant from the chief and one in base, each charged with a leopard's face. |
| Azure, two wolf's heads erased addorsed and conjoined at the neck issuant from the battlements of a demi-tower argent. |
| Equivalent to issuant, but applied only to living creatures. |
