regardant

adj

1. (not-comparable)With the head turned toward the back of the body.

   “The dog was waiting for him, her paws on the second tread, pere regardant with a happy lolling tongue.”

   “The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].”

   “I see a forked beast squatting on the midden of the world, red-eyed, regardant, gnawing on a shinbone: poor, dumb destroyer.”

2. (not-comparable)Watchful, attentive; contemplative.

   “To horse, to horse: thus once Eurydice, / With looks regardant, did the Thracian gaze […].”

   “He stood regardant for a moment.”

   “And now others, casually regardant, passed the place in automobiles ….”