volant

The appeal was comprehensible, and the charioteer, assiduously obliging, fell to posture of checking none too volant steeds.

The over-breastplate was also called the volant—a defence much used in tilts in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Again his cheek wore the brightness of health; and his volant step, too often reminded him how narrow were his boundaries.

Indeed, many kinds of volant animals are endemic to the Solomons.