From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Wiver \Wiv"er\, Wivern \Wiv"ern\, n. [OE. wivere a serpent, OF.
wivre, guivre, F. givre, guivre, wiver, from L. vipera;
probably influenced by OHG. wipera, from the Latin. See
{Viper}, and cf. {Weever}.]
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1. (Her.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a
cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without
spurs. [Written also {wyvern}.]
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The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold
warps, its wiverns, and its dragons. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. (Zool.) The weever.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Wyvern \Wy"vern\, n. (Her.)
Same as {Wiver}.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wyvern
n 1: a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the
head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with
wings and two legs [syn: {wyvern}, {wivern}]
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