issuant

American  

[ish-oo-uhnt] / ˈɪʃ u ənt /

adjective

1. Heraldry. (of a beast) represented with the body erect and only the forepart visible.

   a lion issuant.

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issuant British  

/ ˈɪʃjʊənt /

adjective

1. heraldry emerging or issuing

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Other Word Forms

• unissuant adjective

Etymology

Origin of issuant

First recorded in 1600–10; issue + -ant

Example Sentences

"A chief, undulated, argent—thereon, waves of the sea; from which, a palm-tree issuant, between a disabled ship on the dexter, and a ruinous battery on the sinister; all proper."

From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by Harrison, James

Or, a demi-god, sable, issuant of flames, holding in right hand a sword and in the left a bow—all proper.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

The crest of the ancient family of De la Bere is ‘a ducal coronet or, therefrom issuant a plume of five ostrich feathers per pale argent and azure.’

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

A fabulous eagle, always represented as issuant from flames.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

On a chief, Nebulæ, ermine, one complete doctor, issuant, checkie, sustaining in his right hand a baton of the second.

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John