Lizard

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• Lizard

  ·noun A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends. II. Lizard ·noun ...

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• lizard

  A piece of rope, sometimes with two legs, and one or more iron thimbles spliced into it. It is used ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Lizard

  (that which clings to the ground) (Heb. letaah . (Leviticus 11:30) Lizards of various kinds abound i...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Water lizard

  ·- Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. ·see <<Monitor>>, ·noun, 3. ...

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• bearded lizard

  n. See jew-lizard. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• frilled-lizard

  n. See quotation. 1875, G. Bennett, `Proceedings of Royal Society of Tasmania,'p. 56: «Notes on t...

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• green lizard

  n. sometimes called the Spotted Green Lizard, a New Zealand reptile, Naultinus elegans, Gray. ...

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• jew-lizard

  n. a large Australian lizard, Amiphibolurus barbatus, Cuv.; called also BeardedLizard. 1847. L. Le...

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• lace-lizard

  n. Hydrosaurus (Varanus)varius. See Goanna. 1881. F. McCoy, `Prodomus of the Natural History of Vi...

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• sleepy lizard

  i.q. blue-tongued lizard (q.v.). ...

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• spiny-lizard

  n. i.q. Mountain Devil (q.v.). ...

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• blue-tongued lizard

  n. name given to Tiliqua nigroluteus, Gray, a common Australian andTasmanian lizard belonging to th...

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• brown tree-lizard

  n. of New Zealand, Naultinus pacificus. ...

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• orange-spotted lizard

  (of New Zealand), Naultinuselegans, Gray. ...

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• stump-tailed lizard

  n. an Australian lizard, Trachydosaurus rugosus, Gray. ...

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