guardant

• gardant

From Old French guardant, present participle of guarder (“to watch”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː(ɹ)dənt/

guardant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry, of an animal) Positioned with the body viewed from the side, but with the head turned toward the viewer.

• reguardant, regardant

guardant (plural guardants)

1. (obsolete) A guardian or guard.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     But when my angry guardant stood alone,
     Tendering my ruin and assail'd of none,
     Dizzy-eyed fury and great rage of heart
     Suddenly made him from my side to start
     Into the clustering battle of the French.

• “guardant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

guardant

1. gerund of guardar

guardant (feminine singular guardante, masculine plural guardans, feminine plural guardantes)

1. present participle of guarder
2. (may be preceded by en, invariable) gerund of guarder

guardant

1. present participle of guarder