2. Noun. Any draconic creature. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lindworm
1. a wingless dragon [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lindworm
Literary usage of Lindworm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poems and Translations by Edward Vaughan Kenealy (1864)
"The rose-cheeked Maid went into the grove, The lindworm followed her footsteps
fair ; And there was a beautiful silken bed Standing amidst the roses there. ..."
2. Ancient Danish Ballads by R. c. alexander Prior (1860)
"15 As saw the lindworm's elder son Their cavern flash with flame, ... 10 With
wrath that little lindworm boil'd, And fierce and fiercer grew; "Who dares in ..."
3. The Poetical Works of Edward Vaughan Kenealy by Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, Homer (1879)
"Into the palace the lindworm fierce Wound in many a serpent fold ; And the lindworm
sang of his Lach'C love Beautifully on his harp of gold. ..."
4. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by George Lyman Kittredge (1892)
"32. King Henry. P. 298 b. Second paragraph. Prince as lindworm restored by maid's
lying in bed with him one night : ' Lindormen,' Kristensen, ..."
5. Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art with Special Reference to Their Use by John Vinycomb (1906)
"A dragon or wyvern sans wings is termed a lindworm. (See page 80.) Argent, a
wyvern, wings endorsed gules, are the Wyvern, ..."
6. The Country Year-book; Or, The Field, the Forest & the Fireside by William Howitt (1850)
"It is exactly one of those spots on which all the lindworm legends are laid —founded,
... Even Limburg is derived from its connection with the lindworm, ..."
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