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▪ I. † lacert1 Obs. rare.
Also 6 laserte.
[ad. L. lacerta or lacertus, in the same sense.]
A lizard.
1382Wyclif Levit. xi. 30 A lacert, that is a serpent that is clepid a liserd. 1578Banister Hist. Man iv. 44 A muscle..of the likenes of the little beast called a Laserte. 1585H. Lloyd Treas. Health B ij, Sprynkle it ouer with the Ashes of a grene Lacerte burnt. 1610J. Denton Acc. Estates in Cumberld. (1887) 128 His seal was a griphon eating a lacert. 1696Phillips, Lacert,..a Lizard.
▪ II. † lacert2 Obs.
[a. OF. lacerte, ad. L. lacert-us the fleshy part of the arm (? similative use of lacertus lizard; cf. musculus muscle, lit. ‘little mouse’).]
A muscle.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1895 Every lacerte in his brest adoun Is schent with venym and corrupcioun. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 292 If þe hole of þe festre..touche þe place of þe lacertis of þe ers. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. C iij b, Lyke as those two beestes [the lizard and mouse] are byg in the middle and sclender towarde the tayle so is the muscle or lacerte. 1586Vigo Wks. 287 b, There is a great lacert which hath two heads and keepeth the bone of the adjutorie that it be not displaced on that side. 1696Phillips, Lacert,..the Brawny part of the Arm. |