Definition of "natant" [na•tant]

• Floating or swimming in water. (adjective)

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• "Anguillos &c. &c. et qualescunque in amne natant salu = Eels &c. &c., and every sort whatever that in water swimmeth [wicker/sallow] basket!"
• "There is a point after _natant_, and then follows the word _Saliu_ (not _salu_) with a capital _S_."
• "Cedet et ipse mari vector, nec nautica pinus mutabit merces_ -- the feeling here is the same as in his mere descriptions of daily weather, like the _Omnia plenis rura natant fossis atque omnis navita ponto umida vela legit; _ not so much a vision of a golden age as Nature herself seen through a medium of strange gold."