natant

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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.

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  1. adjective Floating or swimming in water.

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  1. Latin natāns, natant-, present participle of natāre, frequentative of nāre, to swim; see snā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin natan (t-) s, present participle of nature (later Italian natare = Spanish Portuguese nadar = Old French nater, naer), swim, freq. of nare, swim, sail, flow, fly; cf. Greek νάειν, flow, νέειν, swim.
 

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/ˈneɪtənt/
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