| 释义 |
† verme Her. Obs.
[ad. L. vermis worm (Honorius of Autun De Imag. Mundi i. xiii), incorrectly taken as the name of a fish.]
An alleged fish of the Ganges, able to seize and destroy elephants.
Bossewell elsewhere (ii. 66) has the form vermante, prob. an error for verme hariante by accidental omission of letters.
1572J. Bossewell Armorie iii. 25 b, H. hathe to hys Creste, a Verme hariante propre, subsigned aboute the tayle with a scrowe. |