saltant

adj

1. (not-comparable)Leaping; jumping; dancing.
2. (not-comparable)In a leaping position; springing forward; salient.

   “Why the devil, can you deny that you've not a partiality for cats, ha! ha! ha! […] the feline species is preserved—the crest is very evident a kitten saltant, ha! heh! heh!”

   “Two lions saltant as vis-a-vis, but reversed, one with head up, the other down.”

   “The issue at the bottom is decorated by two lions saltant.”

   “Crest a squerrill saltant gules upon a rugged staffe party per fece gold and vert the leaues counterchanged, sett upon a wreath siluer and Sable, the mantletts gules doubled siluer, Botoned gold as it appeareth in ye margent.”