urinant
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin ūrīnāns, present active participle of ūrīnor (“I dive”).
Adjective edit
urinant (not comparable)
- (heraldry): Of a fish: oriented vertically, with the head to base and tail to chief, as if positioned for diving.
- 1866, John Edwin Cussans, The Grammar of Heraldry: Containing a Description of All the Principal Charges Used in Armory, the Signification of Heraldic Terms, and the Rules to be Observed in Blazoning and Marshalling ; Together with the Armorial Bearings of All the Landed Gentry in England Prior to the Sixteenth Century, page 84:
- On a chapeau gules, guarded ermine, a gurnet (fish) urinant proper.
- 1992, Donald R. Mandich, Joseph Anthony Placek, Russian Heraldry and Nobility, Dramco:
- 2) gules, in bend two fish, urinant and hauriant, respectively, argent, their fins "dark azure" (sic).
- 2006, Encyclopedia Americana: Heart to India:
- Azure, three trout interlaced in triangle: the chiefmost naiant, one urinant in bend, and one haurient in bend sinister, all argent.
Coordinate terms edit
Related terms edit
- urinator (obsolete)
Translations edit
oriented vertically, with the head to base and tail to chief
Further reading edit
- attitude (heraldry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Participle edit
urinant
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Verb edit
ūrīnant