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wiver

wiver is the obsolete form of wyvern.

Meaning of wyvern

Noun

wyvern (plural wyverns)

  1. A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail.
    • [I]f (notwithstanding his obligations to the three ermines passant) he sometimes cursed in his heart the jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its moldwarps, its wyverns, and its dragons, with all the bitterness of Hotspur himself, there were moments when these communications interested his fancy and...1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], “Castle-Building”, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London...

Forms of wiver

pluralwivers

Origin of wiver

Inherited from Middle English wyver.

Questions about wiver

What is wiver the obsolete form of?
Wiver is the obsolete form of wyvern.

Words near wiver in the dictionary

  1. Wiveliscombe
  2. Wivelsfield
  3. Wivelsfield Green
  4. wively
  5. Wivenhoe
  6. wiver
  7. wivern
  8. wiverns
  9. wivers
  10. wives
  11. wives-in-law

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wiver (page history and authors); wyvern (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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