Lizard
['lɪzəd] or ['lɪzɚd]
Definition
(noun.) relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail.
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Definition
(n.) Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.
(n.) A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.
(n.) A piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field.
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Definition
n. a family of four-footed scaly reptiles a saurian or lacertilian.—n. Liz′ard-stone a Cornish serpentine.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of lizards, foretells attacks upon you by enemies. If you kill a lizard, you will regain your lost reputation or fortune; but if it should escape, you will meet vexations and crosses in love and business. For a woman to dream that a lizard crawls up her skirt, or scratches her, she will have much misfortune and sorrow. Her husband will be a victim to invalidism and she will be left a widow, and little sustenance will be eked out by her own labors.
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Examples
- Compare the completely closed-in life of an individual lizard with the life of even a quite lowly mammal of almost any kind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Glass snake is the name which has been given to a lizard resembling a serpent in form and reaching a length of three feet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I would fain at the moment have become bee or lizard, that I might have found fitting nutriment, permanent shelter here. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I saw a lizard run over the crag; I saw a bee busy among the sweet bilberries. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Gray lizards, those heirs of ruin, of sepulchres and desolation, glided in and out among the rocks or lay still and sunned themselves. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Watching lizards. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Lizards, grasshoppers, and ants were the only living things to be beheld. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The _Mosasaurs_ were a third group of great porpoise-like marine lizards. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These bat-lizards were the _Pterodactyls_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are just like great lizards. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Professor Cope states that the teeth of certain lizards change much in shape with advancing years. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But really, Ursula, he belongs to the primeval world, when great lizards crawled about. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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