Definition of Lindworm

1. Noun. A wingless bipedal dragon. ¹

2. Noun. Any draconic creature. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lindworm

1. a wingless dragon [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lindworm

linden
linden family
linden tree
lindens
lindera
linderas
lindgrenite
lindia
lindies
lindiform
lindorm
lindorms
lindqvistite
linds
lindsleyite
lindworm (current term)
lindworms
lindy
lindy hop
lindys
line-at-a-time printer
line-drive double
line-drive single
line-drive triple
line-item veto
line-out
line-outs
line-shooter
line-shooting

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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