a. [ad. L. lātrant-em, pr. pple. of lātrāre to bark.] Barking. Chiefly fig.
1702. C. Mather, Magn. Chr., VII. App. (1852), 620. The balant and latrant noises of that sort of people.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Latrant, barking; as A Latrant Writer, an Author that does nothing but bark and snarl at others.
1714. Tickell, Fragm. on Hunting, in Steele, Poet. Misc., 178. The Minds and Genius of the Latrant Race.
1737. M. Green, Spleen, 464. Whose latrant stomachs oft molest The deep-laid plans their dreams suggest.
1861. R. Quinn, Heather Lintie (1866), 115. Thy latrant muse aye glooms sae sour.
