Heraldry. Of a four-legged animal: walking (usually towards the dexter) and looking ahead, with three paws on the ground and the dexter forepaw…

Heraldry. Of a four-legged animal: standing on the sinister hind foot with the forepaws in the air, the sinister above the dexter. Also in…

Heraldry. Of a fish, dolphin, etc.: represented transversely, as if swimming, with its head to dexter; = naiant, adj. Now rare.

Heraldry. Rampant with the fore-paws raised as if in fight; generally said of two lions, etc. rampant and facing each other (affronté)…

Heraldry. = issuant, adj. 1.

Of a fish, etc.: represented in fess, or horizontally, as if swimming. Cf. natant, adj., haurient, adj., urinant, adj.

Heraldry. Having the hind legs in the sinister base and the fore paws elevated near together in the dexter chief, as if in the act of leaping.

Running, coursing.

Heraldry. Of a charge, esp. an animal: issuing from the middle of a fess or other ordinary. Frequently as postmodifier.

Heraldry. Brandishing, flourishing. Obsolete. rare.

Said of two animals borne as charges: Salient in opposite directions.

Heraldry. = courant, adj. Obsolete.

Heraldry. Of a beast or other charge: represented as emerging (from or out of something, as a coronet, the lower line of a chief, etc.), often with…

Passant or walking in opposite directions.

Of a four-legged animal: walking towards the sinister while another animal walks towards the dexter. Cf. passant, adj. 3.

Heraldry. Applied to figures of animals represented as running. (Formerly also current.)

Turned about, i.e. towards the sinister or left.