ingulphant

English

Three whales ingulphant of croziers.

Etymology

Cognate to engulfing?

Adjective

ingulphant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry, of a fish, whale, etc, uncommon) Swallowing.

   Synonym: vorant

   • 1842, Thomas Moule, Heraldry of Fish: Notices of the Principal Families Bearing Fish in Their Arms, London : J. van Voorst, page 48:

     Per pale azure and purpure, three whales' heads erased or, each ingulphant of a spear-head argent, were the arms borne by Sir Hugh Vaughan of Littleton in Middlesex, in the reign of Henry VIII; and were quartered with […]

   • 1920, Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage, page 766:

     […] dolphins haurient, respectant and ingulphant of the flukes of an anchor reversed all proper; on a chief azure three mullets of the first.