Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry: Shooting up as a plant.
- Emerging: nearly the same as
issuant , but applied especially to an animal which appears to emerge from the middle of an ordinary or the like, instead of its upper edge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Her.) Springing up or emerging; -- said of a plant or animal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective heraldry Springing up or emerging; said of a plant or animal.
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Examples
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Heraldry — abatement, cadency, clarion, escutcheon, jessant-de-lys, rampant, talbot (I could go on for close to a thousand words as classical heraldry uses Norman French)
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TV News from TV Gal 2006
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Major Woodford was of the best English blood and bore an ancient coat of arms, described as follows: Sa. three leopard's heads reversed gu. jessant-de-lis ar.
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The arms of the see were: Gules, three leopard's heads reversed, jessant as many fleurs-de-lys, or.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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