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regardant


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Regardant  \Re*gard"ant\  (-ant),  a.  [F.  regardant,  fr  regarder. 
  See  {Regard},  v.  t.]  [Written  also  {regardant}.] 
  1.  Looking  behind;  looking  backward  watchfully. 
 
  [He]  turns  thither  his  regardant  eye.  --Southey. 
 
  2.  (Her.)  Looking  behind  or  backward;  as  a  lion  regardant. 
 
  3.  (O.Eng.Law)  Annexed  to  the  land  or  manor;  as  a  villain 
  regardant. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  regardant 
  adj  :  (heraldry)  looking  backward  [syn:  {regardant(ip)}] 




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