trippant
English
Alternative forms
- tripping
Etymology
From trip + -ant, alteration of tripping, present participle of trip. Compare Scots trippand (“tripping”), present participle of trip (“to skip, go nimbly, trip”).
Adjective
trippant (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Represented as walking or trotting, usually with one of the forehooves lifted while the remaining three are on the ground.
Derived terms
- counter-trippant
- trippant-counter
References
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for trippant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Adjective
trippant (feminine singular trippante, masculine plural trippants, feminine plural trippantes)
- (slang) trippy