hauriant

[ hawr-ee-uhnt ]

adjective

, Heraldry.

1. (of a fish) represented as erect, with the head upward:

   a dolphin hauriant.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hauriant¹

1565–75; variant of haurient < Latin haurient- (stem of hauriēns ) drawing, scooping up, present participle of haurīre; haustellum, -ant, -ent

Example Sentences

On the trees round the ford there were hanging rusty helms and melancholy shields—sixty-four of them, with their bends and chevrons and luces hauriant and merles and eagles displayed and lions passant guardant looking desolate and abandoned.

From Literature

The "three luces hauriant argent" were the arms borne by the Charlecote Lucys, and the dramatist's prolonged reference in this scene to the "dozen white luces" on Justice Shallow's "old coat" fully establishes Shallow's identity with Lucy.

From Project Gutenberg

On an escutcheon a herring hauriant; the only instance of this bearing in connection with Yarmouth.

From Project Gutenberg

The ‘three luces hauriant argent’ were the arms borne by the Charlecote Lucys, and the dramatist’s prolonged reference in this scene to the ‘dozen white luces’ on Justice Shallow’s ‘old coat’ fully establishes Shallow’s identity with Lucy.

From Project Gutenberg

Quarterly, 1 and 4 a lion rampant for Percy, 2 and 3 three luces hauriant for Lucy—Percy.

From Project Gutenberg