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Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne.

In a salient manner.

Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.

Leaping upon. [Obs.]

The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column. P. Cyc. Arris fillet, a triangular piece of wood used to raise the slates of a roof against a chimn…

The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.

n one or both wings of the enemy, or to take up a new position. -- Flanks of a frontier, salient points in a national boundary, strengthened to protect the frontier against hostile incursion. -- Flank patrol, detachments acting independently of the column of an army, but patrolling along its flanks, to secure it agai…

A simple fieldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and open at the gorge.

A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.

An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.

rs of some birds. Indented line (Fort.), a line with alternate long and short faces, with salient and receding angles, each face giving a flanking fire along the front of the next.

A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.

That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc. He told him, point for point, in short and plain. Chaucer. In point of religion and in point…

A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.

A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.

The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.

Same as Salient.

That quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.

Quality of being salient; hence, vigor. "A fatal lack of poetic saliency." J. Morley.

Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal.