hauriant
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hauriant
1565–75; variant of haurient < Latin haurient- (stem of hauriēns ) drawing, scooping up, present participle of haurīre; haustellum, -ant, -ent
Example Sentences
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On the trees round the ford there were hanging rusty helms and melancholy shields—sixty-four of them, with their bends and chevrons and luces hauriant and merles and eagles displayed and lions passant guardant looking desolate and abandoned.
From Literature
The "three luces hauriant argent" were the arms borne by the Charlecote Lucys, and the dramatist's prolonged reference in this scene to the "dozen white luces" on Justice Shallow's "old coat" fully establishes Shallow's identity with Lucy.
From Project Gutenberg
On an escutcheon a herring hauriant; the only instance of this bearing in connection with Yarmouth.
From Project Gutenberg
The ‘three luces hauriant argent’ were the arms borne by the Charlecote Lucys, and the dramatist’s prolonged reference in this scene to the ‘dozen white luces’ on Justice Shallow’s ‘old coat’ fully establishes Shallow’s identity with Lucy.
From Project Gutenberg
Quarterly, 1 and 4 a lion rampant for Percy, 2 and 3 three luces hauriant for Lucy—Percy.
From Project Gutenberg
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