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Wivern

Wiver \Wiv"er\, Wivern \Wiv"ern\, n. [OE. wivere a serpent, OF. wivre, guivre, F. givre, guivre, wiver, from L. vipera; probably influenced by OHG. wipera, from the Latin. See Viper, and cf. Weever.]

  1. (Her.) 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. (Zo["o]l.) The weever.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wivern

see wyvern.

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wivern

n. (alternative spelling of wyvern English)

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wivern

n. a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs [syn: wyvern]

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After all, we bear, azure, a wivern or, darting fire, ongle gules, and scaled vert, a chief ermine, from the time of Francois I.