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Wive"hood (?), n. Wifehood. [Obs.] Spenser.
Wive"less, a. Wifeless. [Obs.] Homilies.
Wive"ly, a. Wifely. [Obs.] Udall.
{ Wiv"er (?), 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.]
1. (Her.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice,
but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs. [Written also
wyvern.]
The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold warps, its wiverns, and
its dragons.
Sir W. Scott.