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 ==== countertrippant trippant-counter === References === “trippant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == French == === Adjective === trippant (feminine trippante, masculine plural trippants, feminine plural trippantes) (slang) trippy