The hound or dog (also levrier, leverer; French lévrier; dogue, chien) is used as a charge in classical heraldry.In English heraldry, the commonly used variant are the talbot, also blazoned as sleuth-hound, e.g. in the arms of Wolseley of Staffordshire, the greyhound and bloodhound.Rarely seen variants are the ratch-hound, the mastiff (alant or aland), the foxhound, the spaniel and the terrier.The "sea-dog" is a curious charge resembling the talbot but with scales, webbed feet and a broad tail, used in the arms of Stourton barony, presumably originally depicting a beaver (as used in the Coat of arms of Oxford).Similar charges include the wolf and the fox.