"Saliant" is a word in ENGLISH

The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly …

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

A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part …

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

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

gíding - Edge, rim, border, cant, an external or salient angle. (cf. bibíg, binít, bínka).

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.

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 …

A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp …

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

The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.

The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or …

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

Quality of being salient; hence, vigor.

Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.

A salient angle or part; a projection.

Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.

Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion.