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(heraldry) In a leaping position; springing forward; salient.
1808, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, page 91:
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!
1867, The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Comedies, page 41:
"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 ingeniuous explanation from a correspondant, "A Lover of Heraldry." "The arms of the Lucies (not 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."
1893, Journal of the Derbyshire Archæological and Natural History Society, page 43:
Two lions saltant as vis-a-vis, but reversed, one with head up, the other down.
1905, Ferdinand Justi, Sara Yorke Stevenson, Morris Jastrow (Jr.), Central and eastern Asia in antiquity, page 91:
The issue at the bottom is decorated by two lions saltant.
1925, The Publications of the Harleian Society, page 78:
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.
