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▪ I. wyver
obs. Sc. var. weaver1.
▪ II. † wyver Obs.
Forms: 4 guiure, 5 gwyuer (gwuer), 4–5 wiuere, 5 wiver, 6–7 wiuer; 4–5 wyuere, 5–7 wyuer, 7 wyver.
[a. OF. wyvre, wivre, guivre (F. guivre, givre), etc., varr. vivre serpent: see viver2.]
1. A viper. Also fig. and in fig. context.
13..K. Alis. 5609 (Laud MS.), Addres, guiures, & dragouns, Wolden þis folk..Envenymen & abite. c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 1010 Ialousye..þat wikkede wyuere. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love iii. v. (Skeat) l. 34 Wherfore..ye ne ought..accompte thilke thing [sc. jealousy] among these other welked wivers and venomous serpentes, as envy, mistrust, and yvel speche. c1400Partonope 7079 Now is he allone in þe wildernesse Amonge wyuerse and serpentes. Ibid. 7254 Maruk shewed hir grete lyons,..Dragons, Wyuers, and eke serpentes.
2. Her. = wyvern 1.
1599Thynne Animadv. (1875) 41 A Wyuer is a kynde of serpent of good Bulke, not vnlyke vnto a dragon, of whose kinde he is, a thinge well knowen vnto the Heroldes, vsinge the same for armes, and crestes, & supporters. Ibid. 42 The erle of Kent bearethe a wiuer for his Creste and supporters; the erle of Penbroke, a wiuer vert for his Creste. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 293 A wiuer volant. Ibid. 294 A Wyuer being the Armes of Hugh Brent Esquire. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Wyver, the name of an Animal, little known otherwise than as it is depicted in Blazonry.
3. wyver-fish, some chimerical fish. nonce-use.
1857Meredith Farina ix. 153 Upon that he [sc. the Demon] shot out his wings, that were like the fins of the wyver-fish, sharpened in venomous points. |