saliant

English

Adjective

saliant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry, dated) Alternative form of salient
   • 1632, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie, page 195:

     He beareth, Or, a Lion Saliant, Gules, by the name of Felbridge. The Proper forme of a Lion Saliant, is Lion Saliant when his right forefoot answereth to the Dexter corner of the Escocheon, and his hindmost foot the sinister base […]

   • 1842, Thomas Chatterton, Poetical Works: With Notices of His Life, History of the Rowley Controversy, a Selection of His Letters, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory, page 706:

     Or two Wolves counter saliant Sable.

   • 1898, The Encyclopaedia Britannica ...: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature ... in Thirty Volumes with New American Supplement, page 699:

     Williams : argent , two foxes saliant counter-saliant in saltire, gules, the dexter surmounting the sinister (fig. 100). Sir Simon de Felbrigge, K.G .: or, a lion saliant gules (fig. 89). Fitz Payne: gules, three lions […]

2. Obsolete spelling of salient.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Thomas Curtis, The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana, page 451:

     When the counterguard is placed before the ravelin, set off forty toises on the capital of the ravelin from the saliant angle A to the saliant angle B, of the counterguard; and ten from C to D, on the counterscarp of the ditch.

References

• “saliant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Latinas, Santali, Slatina, latinas

Latin

Verb

saliant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of saliō