| 释义 |
wyvern|ˈwaɪvən|
Also 7 wiu-, wiverne, 8–9 wivern (8 wefforne).
[f. prec., with excrescent -n (see note on bittern1).]
1. Her. A representation of a chimerical animal imagined as a winged dragon with two feet like those of an eagle, and a serpent-like, barbed tail.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xxvi. 182 So doth the Wiuerne partake of a Fowle in the Wings and Legs,..and doth resemble a Serpent in the Taile. 1682J. Gibbon Introd. ad Lat. Blazoniam 123 This Dragon hath but two Legs, and so is the same with our Wiverne. 1716S. Kent Gramm. Her. s.v. Drake, He beareth Argent, a Wivern, his Wings displaid and Tail nowed Gules. 1780Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2) V. 3605/2 A Wivern volant Bendways Sable. Ibid., A Wyvern with a human Face. 1822Gage Hengrave 38 A squirrel..impaling a coat argent, on a chevron, between three wyvern's heads. 1864Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. x. 68 Two Wyverns also support the shield of the Duke of Rutland. 1882Cussans Her. (1893) 100 The wings of the Dragon..and Wyvern are always represented as addorsed.
attrib.1688Holme Armoury ii. 214/1 He beareth Vert,..a Wivern-Wolf. Ibid., He beareth Azure, a Wivern-Serpent, Or.
b. An image or figure of this monster.
1863Chr. Remembrancer Oct. 436 The name of S. Romanus..is still dear to the boys and girls of Norman villages by sundry processions of dragons, wyverns,..made of combustibles. 1864Tennyson Aylmer's F. 17 Sir Aylmer Aylmer, that almighty man..Whose blazing wyvern weathercock'd the spire. Ibid. 516 The manorial lord..Burst his own wyvern on the seal, and read..a letter from his child.
2. Such a monster conceived as having a real existence.
a1700in Surtees Hist. Durham (1823) III. 243 Sir John Conyers, Knt., slew yt monstrous, and poysonous vermine or wyverne, an aske or werme, wh[ich] overthrew and devoured many people in fight. 1820Surtees Ibid. II. 172 [He] goes forth to slay wolf, bear, or wivern. 1835Browning Paracelsus ii. 454 Lakes which..Blaze like a wyvern flying round the sun. 1869Tales fr. Blackwood XV. 74 As if she had been a Wyvern or a Gorgon. |