Salient

1. a. A salient angle or part; a projection.
2. v. i. Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.
3. v. i. Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
4. v. i. Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.
5. v. i. Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; — opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion.
6. v. i. Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.