▪ I. ˈviver1 Now dial. or Obs.
Forms: 4 viuere, 5 vyvere, wywere; 4–5 viuer (5 vever, Sc. wewar), 5 vyuer, 6 vyver, 9 viver.
[a. AF. viver, OF. (also mod.F.) vivier (= Sp. vivero, Pg. viveiro), ad. L. vīvārium vivarium.]
A fishpond.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 13764 Þis ilk water als þe stori sais, Was mikel renumed in þaa dais, Als it war a gode viuere [printed vinere]. c 1330 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 519 In j fossato facto de Molend[ino] usque le viuer, vijs. iijd. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints ii. (Paul) 344 Sanct paulis hed eftir his discese In a depe vewar warpit was. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) xxiii. 105 Withouten þaim er many vyuers and stankes, whare on er many fewles of riuer. c 1425 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 652 Hoc uiuarium, wywere. 1511 in Pat. Roll iii. m. 1 (P.R.O.), Parkes, chaces, warennes, vyvers, pondes. 1875 Parish Sussex Gloss. 128 Vivers, fish-ponds. |
▪ II. † ˈviver2 Obs.
Also 7 viuer.
[ad. OF. vivre (var. guivre) serpent:—L. vīpera viper.]
(See quots.)
| 1611 Cotgr., Poignastre, the Viuer, a little sea-Dragon. Ibid., Traigne, the sea Dragon, Viuer, Quauiuer. [1674 T. P., etc. Eng. & Fr. Cook 412 Potage of Vives (sic) or Sea-dragons.] |
▪ III. viver3 dial.
(ˈvaɪvə(r))
[Alteration of fiver fibre.]
A fibre or rootlet.
| 1877 E. Leigh Cheshire Gloss., Vivers, small roots, fibres. 1906 Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 250 But the vivers of her roots they hold the bank together. |