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Webster 1913 Edition

(ha̤′rĭ-ent)

Adj.

[L.

hauriens

, p. pr. of

haurire

to breathe.]

(Her.)

In pale, with the head in chief; – said of the figure of a fish, as if rising for air.

A coat of arms with two fish haurient addorsed.

haurient ‎(not comparable)

(heraldry, of a fish) Oriented vertically, with the head to chief and tail to base.

oriented vertically, with the head to chief and tail to base

haurient