saltant

1. (heraldry) In a leaping position; springing forward; salient.Examples: "Why the devil, can you deny that you've not a partiality for cats, ha! ha! ha! […] the feline species is preserved—the crest is very evident a kitten saltant, ha! heh! heh!"; ""The luce is the fresh fish; the salt fish is an old coat." This speech is an heraldric puzzle. It is pretty clear that "the dozen white luces" apply to the arms of the Lucy family. […] Since our first edition we have received an ingenious explanation from a correspondent, "A Lover of Heraldry." "The arms of the Lucies (now quartered by the Duke of Northumberland) are gules, three lucies hauriant, argent. […] 'The salt fis (i.e. the fish or luce saltant) is an old coat.' Without taking it as a strict and formed adjective, I think in Shallow's mouth the salt luces may well mean the saltant lucies.""; "Two lions saltant as vis-a-vis, but reversed, one with head up, the other down."not-comparable