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  • noun Plural form of izard.

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Examples

  • He was boasting of his great snow mountains, the forests that propped them, the bears that roamed in them, the izards that loved the ice, and the boars that fed on the oak mast.

    Under the Red Robe Stanley John Weyman 1891

  • But fortune favoured me, by putting it into my neighbour's head to plunge into a hot debate with the shock-headed man on the nature of some animals seen on a distant brow; which he said were izards, while the other maintained that they were common goats.

    Under the Red Robe Stanley John Weyman 1891

  • The voice of Charlet roused me from the reverie into which I had fallen, desiring me to look in the direction of the great cascade at a troop of izards that were bounding up the rocks.

    Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834

  • We have killed two izards, and that, you will say, is pretty well. '

    The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Ward Radcliffe 1793

  • We have killed two izards, and that, you will say, is pretty well.’

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

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