Natant

Word NATANT
Character 6
Hyphenation na tant
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Natant"

What do we mean by natant?

Floating or swimming in water. adjective

Swimming; floating.

Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants. adjective

Placed horizontally across the field, as if swimming toward the dexter side; said of all sorts of fishes except the flying fish. adjective

Floating or swimming (in water) adjective

Floating or swimming (in water)

In a horizontal position, as if swimming

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The word "natant" in example sentences

Anguillos &c. &c. et qualescunque in amne natant salu = Eels &c. &c., and every sort whatever that in water swimmeth [wicker/sallow] basket! ❋ Various (N/A)

There is a point after _natant_, and then follows the word _Saliu_ (not _salu_) with a capital _S_. ❋ Various (N/A)

Cedet et ipse mari vector, nec nautica pinus mutabit merces_ -- the feeling here is the same as in his mere descriptions of daily weather, like the _Omnia plenis rura natant fossis atque omnis navita ponto umida vela legit; _ not so much a vision of a golden age as Nature herself seen through a medium of strange gold. ❋ Unknown (1902)

And upon the top of that one of the stone pillars supporting the gate which I could see, stood a creature of stone, whether natant, volant, passant, couchant, or rampant, I could not tell, only it looked like something terrible enough for a quite antediluvian heraldry. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

After islands or continents were raised above the primeval ocean, great numbers of the most simple animals would attempt to seek food at the edges or shores of the new land, and might thence gradually become amphibious; as is now seen in the frog, who changes from an aquatic animal to an amphibious one; and in the gnat, which changes from a natant to a volant state. ❋ Unknown (1803)

The gnat and the tadpole resemble each other in their change from natant animals with gills into aerial animals with lungs; and in their change of the element in which they live; and probably of the food, with which they are supported; and lastly, with their acquiring in their new state the difference of sex, and the organs of seminal or amatorial reproduction. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

After these an apparatus of limbs for future uses, or for the purpose of moving the body in its present natant state, and of lungs for future respiration, and of testes for future reproduction, are formed by the irritations and sensations, and consequent exertions of the parts previously existing, and to which the new parts are to be attached. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

"Before me natant birds hunker against the teeth of a northerly breeze." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Eurique Zephyrique tonat domus, omnia plenis Rura natant foflis, atque omnis navita ponto Humida vela legit. ❋ Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield (1796)

Gemmas terminales tantuiji ramoj exferunt, adeoque minime omnium topiaria efti RadiceSy velut in ipfa fuperficie terra? natant, pri maria tantum radice excepta, quaD. perpendicuIari ter alte fefe in terram demergit, quare etiam btt arbor vix transplantatur. ❋ Unknown (1788)

_natant_, as is not only the case in the St. John's MS., mentioned in ❋ Various (N/A)

-- haec domus ortus aspicit et Phoebi tenerum iubar; illa cadentem detinet exactamque negat dimittere lucem, cum iam fessa dies et in aequora montis opaci umbra cadit vitreoque natant praetoria ponto. haec pelagi clamore fremunt, haec tecta sonoros ignorant fluctus terraeque silentia malunt. ❋ Harold Edgeworth Butler (1914)

After these an apparatus of limbs for future uses, or for the purpose of moving the body in its present natant state, and of lungs for future respiration, and of _testes_ for future reproduction, are formed by the irritations and sensations and consequent exertions of the parts previously existing, and to which the new parts are to be attached. [ ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)

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