urinant
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin ūrīnāns, present active participle of ūrīnor (“I dive”).
Adjective
editurinant (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
editRelated terms
edit- urinator (obsolete)
Translations
editoriented vertically, with the head to base and tail to chief
Further reading
edit- attitude (heraldry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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editParticiple
editurinant
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editLatin
editVerb
editūrīnant