countersalient

English

The arms of Watkin Williams-Wynn depicts two foxes counter-salient.

Alternative forms

• counter-salient

Etymology

counter- +‎ salient

Adjective

countersalient (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Leaping in opposite directions (as if past or away from each other); said of two figures on a coat of arms.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “countersalient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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