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Wyvern
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wyvern
wyvern
English
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Noun
wyvern (plural wyverns)
- (heraldry, mythology) Mythical dragon-like creature, having wings, only two legs and a barbed tail.
- 1940-54 The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry, "WE SIT UNHACKLED DRUNK AND MAD TO EDIT", UBC Press,1992, p.222:
- Notions of freedom are tied up in drink / Our ideal life contains a tavern / Where man may sit and talk of or just think / All without fear of the nighted wyvern, / Or yet another tavern where it appears.
- 1940-54 The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry, "WE SIT UNHACKLED DRUNK AND MAD TO EDIT", UBC Press,1992, p.222:
Translations
mythical dragon-like creature