"saltant" meaning in English

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        "Leaping; jumping; dancing."
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          "ref": "1808, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, page 91:",
          "text": "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!",
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          "ref": "1867, The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Comedies, page 41:",
          "text": "\"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 ingeniuous explanation from a correspondant, \"A Lover of Heraldry.\" \"The arms of the Lucies (not 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.\"",
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          "ref": "1893, Journal of the Derbyshire Archæological and Natural History Society, page 43:",
          "text": "Two lions saltant as vis-a-vis, but reversed, one with head up, the other down.",
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          "ref": "1905, Ferdinand Justi, Sara Yorke Stevenson, Morris Jastrow (Jr.), Central and eastern Asia in antiquity, page 91:",
          "text": "The issue at the bottom is decorated by two lions saltant.",
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          "text": "Crest a squerrill saltant gules upon a rugged staffe party per fece gold and vert the leaues counterchanged, sett upon a wreath siluer and Sable, the mantletts gules doubled siluer, Botoned gold as it appeareth in ye margent.",
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        "In a leaping position; springing forward; salient."
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        "(heraldry) In a leaping position; springing forward; salient."
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