† quaviver Obs.
Also 7 quaui(u)er, quawiuer.
[app. f. viver; the first element is obscure.]
The fish called sea-dragon or dragonet.
| 1589 Rider Bibl. Scholast. 1723 A quaviuer, a kind of sea fish, araneus dracæna. 1611 Cotgr., Traigne, the sea Dragon, Viuer, Quauiuer. 1655 Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 258 Quawiuers, for so the Scots and Northern English term them, are very subtile and crafty Fishes. 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Fish, Your Quavivers or Perches must be boiled in Water with Salt. 1783 Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) 11, Draco,..a fish called a quaviver. |