WIVER; WIVERN

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs. [Written also wyvern.] The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold warps, its wiverns, and its dragons. Sir W. Scott.

2.
n.

The weever.


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