saltant

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!

1808, The Critical Review, or, Annals of Literature, page 91

"The luce is the fresh fish; the salt fish is an old coat." This speech is an heraldric puzzle. It is pretty clear that "the dozen white luces" apply to the arms of the Lucy family. […] Since our first edition we have received an ingenious explanation from a correspondent, "A Lover of Heraldry." "The arms of the Lucies (now quartered by the Duke of Northumberland) are gules, three lucies hauriant, argent. […] 'The salt fis (i.e. the fish or luce saltant) is an old coat.' Without taking it as a strict and formed adjective, I think in Shallow's mouth the salt luces may well mean the saltant lucies."

1867, The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Comedies, page 41

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

1893, Journal of the Derbyshire Archæological and Natural History Society, page 43

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.

1925, The Publications of the Harleian Society, page 78