rising as if to breathe
• (a.) In pale, with the head in chief; -- said of the figure of a fish, as if rising for air.
Hau'ri·ent (ha'rĭ* e nt) adjective [ Latin hauriens , present participle of haurire to breathe.] (Her.) In pale, with the head in chief; -- said of the figure of a fish, as if rising for air. 
In heraldry, haurient is said of a depiction of a fish which is in pale, with the head in chief as if rising for air.