Wavy and Nebuly
A line wavy is a sine wave, often used to represent water; a line nebuly is similar but with more exaggerated meanders, representing clouds. In early armory these were not distinguished.
The wavy chief in the arms of Lord Nelson was blazoned as undulated.
The field of the arms of the 40th Finance Battalion of the United States Army is blazoned per fess wavy (in the manner of a Taeguk) The chief in the arms of Professor S.W. Haines is wavy of one crest and depressed in the centre of one point.
In wavy crested the waves appear like pointed breakers.
The arms of James Hill show an example of barrulets wavy crested to the sinister on the upper edge. There are examples of even great complexity and specificity in the wavy line, such as the arms of "Baron Nolan... three 'bars wavy couped composed of two troughs and a wave invected of one point on the upper edge and engrailed of one point on the lower edge'".
Specification of the number of "undulations" in nebuly can be seen by Jochen Wilke's roundel, with ten. (It is uncommon for lines of partition to modify a charge other than an ordinary.)
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“At fifteen I visualized myself as a world-famous author of seventy with a mane of wavy white hair. Today I am practically bald.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)