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† Worral. World English Historical Dictionary

† Worral. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. † Worral Obs. Also warral, waral, (woralla). [a. Arab. waral.] A monitor lizard; = VARAN.

1 1714.  Maundrell, Journ. Aleppo, Add. 3. Here is found a large Serpent which has legs and claws, called Woralla.

2 1738.  T. Shaw, Trav., 429. Of the Lizard Kind, the Warral is of so docible a Nature, and appears withal to be so affected with Musick, that I have seen several of them keep exact Time and Motion with the Dervishes, in their circulatory Dances.

3 1743.  R. Pococke, Descr. East, I. 208. The Worral … is … four feet long,… has a forked tongue.

4 1744.  C. Thompson, Trav., III. 326. The Worral is a Sort of Lizard, which sometimes is thirty or forty Inches in Length.

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