sejant rampant

Adjective

 * 1)  Sitting with one or especially both of its forefeet lifted up.

Usage notes

 * This term—sometimes treated as a single descriptor and even hyphenated, as in the 1881 cite above about "a lion, sejant-rampant", and at other times treated as a sequence of descriptors, as in the 1860 cite about "a lion, sejant, rampant, or"—is little-used, especially outside England. Animals in this posture are often blazoned simply sejant, especially if having its forepaws raised is the typical way the animal sits (in life or in heraldry, as with a squirrel, marmot, etc). Compare the images in.