Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A serpent.
- n. A wivern.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete Wyvern.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Her.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs.
- n. (Zoöl.) The weever.
Examples
“And if spent pwoperwy, it goes wew with wiver and fava beans, washed down with a nice Chianti.”
“You said you was going acwoss ve wiver," panted Wee Willie”
“Coppy -- must go acwoss ve wiver, and I came after you ever so hard, but you wouldn't stop, and now you've hurted yourself, and Coppy will be angwy wiv me, and -- I've bwoken my awwest!”
“I _knew_ she didn't ought to go acwoss ve wiver, and I knew ve wegiment would come to me if I sent Jack home.”
“You said you was going acwoss ve wiver," panted Wee Willie Winkie, throwing himself off his pony.”
“I _knew_ she didn't ought to go acwoss ve wiver, and I knew ve wegiment would come to me if I sent”
The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling
“And nobody -- not even Coppy -- must go acwoss ve wiver, and I came after you ever so hard, but you wouldn't stop, and now you've hurted yourself, and Coppy will be angwy wiv me, and -- I've bwoken my awwest!”
The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling
“You said you was going acwoss ve wiver,' panted Wee Willie Winkie, throwing himself off his pony.”
The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling
“But how extwao'dinawy it is that I have not seen a fish wise since I have been on the wiver.”
“That's vewy twue indeed; but your sea-line fishing in a wiver, and for salmon, strikes me as vewy singular.”
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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Fabulous Creatures
Inspired by a Twitter exchange between Kory Stamper and other lexicographers about mythical beings with "fabulous" in their definitions.
mamuque, hippocampus, hippodame, hippogriff, kraken, cockatrice, griffin, centaur, chichevache, hippocentaur, hircocerf, tragelaphus and 40 more...
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