Definition of "latrant"

And that the Balant and Latrant Noiſes of that ſort of People may be for ever Silenced, […]

1702, Cotton Mather, “Book VII (Ecclesarium Prælia: […])”, in Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620. unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698. […], London: […] Thomas Parkhurst, […], page 82, column 1

Latrant, barking; as A Latrant Writer, an Author that does nothing but bark and snarl at others.]

Philips, s.v, unnumbered page, column 1

Thy care be the first the various gifts to traceThe minds and genius of the latrant race.

1714, Thomas Tickell, “A Fragment of a Poem on Hunting”, in The poetical works of Thomas Parnell, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, published 1854, page 66

Whoſe latrant ſtomachs oft moleſtThe deep-laid plans their dreams ſuggeſt;

1737, Matthew Green, The Spleen, and Other Poems, London: Printed for T[homas] Cadell, […] , published 1796, page 34

Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity.

1856, Lorenzo Altisonant [pseudonym; Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour], Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, Cincinnati: Applegate & Co., Letter No. II, page 13

Thy latrant muse aye glooms sae sour;The ither day her gipsy glower

1863, Roger Quinn, The Heather Lintie: […] , Dumfries: James Maxwell, page 21

Thus—All triangles are all trilaterals. 2°, It may designate a class considered as undivided, though not positively thought as taken in its whole extent; and this may be articulately denoted by (:.). Thus—The triangle is the trilateral;—The dog is the latrant.— (Here note the use of the definite article in English, Greek, French, German,α &c.)

1860, William Hamilton, “Appendix”, in H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, editors, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume IV, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 279