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naiant, a. Her.|ˈneɪənt|
Also 6 nayaunt, -ante.
[a. AF. *naiant, -aunt, = OF. noiant (noant, nouant), pres. pple. of noier, nouer, noer:—L. natāre to swim.]
Swimming. (See quots.)
1562Leigh Armorie (1597) 99 b, If he [a dolphin] were in Fesse, then you should saye, nayaunt. 1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 65 The fielde is verte, a whale nayante Argente, pellettee Sable. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xxii. 167 All Fishes being borne Transuerse the Escocheon must in blazon be termed Naiant. 1661Morgan Sph. Gentry iii. v. 51 Three Sea-horses naiant argent. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Naiant, or Natant (i.e. Swimming) is the proper Term in Heraldry, to Blazon Fishes in an Escutcheon, when they are drawn in an Horizontal Posture, Fess-wise, or Transversly across the Escutcheon. 1858E. J. Millington Heraldry 346 The base water, therein a Salmon naiant. 1864Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xiv. (ed. 3) 149 Another shield, azure, charged with three herrings naiant in pale arg. |