Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Leaping; jumping; dancing.
- In zoology, saltatorial or saltatory; salient.
- In heraldry, leaping in a position similar to salient: noting a squirrel, cat, or other small animal when used as a bearing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Leaping; jumping; dancing.
- adjective (Her.) In a leaping position; springing forward; -- applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat, greyhound, monkey, etc.
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- adjective Leaping; jumping; dancing.
- adjective heraldry In a leaping position; springing forward.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"saltant" in each chapter, the act of reading itself becomes a concern in "Revolution."
NYT > Home Page By NED VIZZINI 2010
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Woods and fields are tremulous at twilight with the shimmering of white saltant forms, and immemorial Ocean yields up curious sights beneath thin moons.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007
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Et quando volunt aliquem prouocare ad potum arripiunt eum per aures et trahunt fortiter vt dilatent ei gulam, et plaudunt et saltant coram eo.
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Et quando faciunt festum magnum, tunc omnes plaudunt manibus et saltant ad vocem citharæ, viri coram Domino, et mulieres coram domina.
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Et quando volunt aliquem prouocare ad potum arripiunt eum per aures et trahunt fortiter vt dilatent ei gulam, et plaudunt et saltant coram eo.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Et quando faciunt festum magnum, tunc omnes plaudunt manibus et saltant ad vocem cithar�, viri coram Domino, et mulieres coram domina.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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He lauded Kedzie's pout as well as her more saltant expressions.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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Glad to escape so easily, the young acolyte disappeared down the alley of fig trees, not without a furtive look at the patches of chickweed around their roots, the possible ambuscade of creeping or saltant vermin.
On the Frontier Bret Harte 1869
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North American, etc. Called Crapaud from the device of the ancient kings of France, "three toads erect saltant."
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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The delusion gave a new impulse to his ardour; and no professor of the saltant art ever applied himself with greater industry, than the naturalist now used his heels on the ribs of Asinus.
The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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