† worraln.
Obsolete.
A monitor lizard; = varan n.
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a1701 H. Maundrell Acct. Journey from Aleppo in Journey to Jerusalem (1721) 3 Here is found a large Serpent which has legs and claws, called Woralla.
1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant 429 Of the Lizard Kind, the Warral is of so docible a Nature, and appears withal to be so affected with Musick, that I have seen several of them keep exact Time and Motion with the Dervishes, in their circulatory Dances.
1743 R. Pococke Descr. East I. 208 The Worral..is..four feet long,..has a forked tongue.
1744 Trav. Late Charles Thompson III. 326 The Worral is a Sort of Lizard, which sometimes is thirty or forty Inches in Length.
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