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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In heraldry, rampant in opposite directions: said of animals used as bearings. It is more usual to describe two animals counter-rampant as rampant combattant or rampant affronté when represented face to face, and rampant indorsed when back to back.
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“Shield, bowed in its contour, and charged with a _single_ Lion rampant facing to the sinister, or _counter-rampant_, No. 190; and it has been conjectured that, were the whole face of this Shield visible, a second”
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