vigilant

comparative more vigilant · superlative most vigilant

1. Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary.

   Be vigilant for signs of disease in your garden.

   Synonyms: alert, aware, careful, circumspect, observant, on the qui vive, wakesome, wary

2. raregovernmentIn vigilance.

   [...] and sharing the same heraldry : argent, a crane, vigilant, or,[…]

   1997, Saint Thomas More, More to Cranevelt, Leuven University Press, →ISBN, page 23

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   von der LUTKE / Argent, a crane vigilant proper. AG. Carl von der Lutke. Arr. 1857 with the British German Crimea legion. Obtained a grant of land in the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony.

   1972, C. Pama, Heraldry of South African Families: Coats of Arms/ Crests/ Ancestry