Definition of "urinant"

urinant

adjective
not comparable
1. (heraldry) : Of a fish: oriented vertically, with the head to base and tail to chief, as if positioned for diving.
  Quotations
  On a chapeau gules, guarded ermine, a gurnet (fish) urinant proper.
  1866, John Edwin Cussans, The Grammar of Heraldry: Containing a Description of All the Principal Charges Used in Armory, the Signification of Heraldic Terms, and the Rules to be Observed in Blazoning and Marshalling ; Together with the Armorial Bearings of All the Landed Gentry in England Prior to the Sixteenth Century, page 84
  2) gules, in bend two fish, urinant and hauriant, respectively, argent, their fins "dark azure" (sic).
  1992, Donald R. Mandich, Joseph Anthony Placek, Russian Heraldry and Nobility, Dramco
  Azure, three trout interlaced in triangle: the chiefmost naiant, one urinant in bend, and one haurient in bend sinister, all argent.
  2006, Encyclopedia Americana: Heart to India