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segreant
[ seg-ree-uhnt ]
adjective
- (of a griffin) rampant.
yĐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of segreant1
Example Sentences
Even as it was once the pride of the cook pedant to carve each bird on the board with a new word for the act, so it became the delight of the pedant herald to order that the rampant horse should be âforcenďż˝,â the rampant griffon âsegreant,â the passant hart âtrippantâ; while the same hart must needs be âattiredâ as to its horns and âunguledâ as to its hoofs.
Most charmingly, there is an array of heraldic beasts: lions passant, dragons rampant, griffins segreant and more.
Ermine, on a chief sable, two griffins segreant combatant argent.
A griffin rampant, segreant, gules.
O.   M. Tregodecke, who beareth A. a Cheuron betweene three     Buckles S.   M. Spurre, G. on a Cheuron O. a rose of the first, and     2. mullets pearced S.   M. Bligh, B. a Griffon segreant O. armed G. betweene 3.
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