▪ I. † lacert1 Obs. rare.
Also 6 laserte.
[ad. L. lacerta or lacertus, in the same sense.]
A lizard.
| 1382 Wyclif Levit. xi. 30 A lacert, that is a serpent that is clepid a liserd. 1578 Banister Hist. Man iv. 44 A muscle..of the likenes of the little beast called a Laserte. 1585 H. Lloyd Treas. Health B ij, Sprynkle it ouer with the Ashes of a grene Lacerte burnt. 1610 J. Denton Acc. Estates in Cumberld. (1887) 128 His seal was a griphon eating a lacert. 1696 Phillips, Lacert,..a Lizard. |
▪ II. † lacert2 Obs.
[a. OF. lacerte, ad. L. lacert-us the fleshy part of the arm (? similative use of lacertus lizard; cf. musculus muscle, lit. ‘little mouse’).]
A muscle.
| c 1386 Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1895 Every lacerte in his brest adoun Is schent with venym and corrupcioun. c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 292 If þe hole of þe festre..touche þe place of þe lacertis of þe ers. 1541 R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. C iij b, Lyke as those two beestes [the lizard and mouse] are byg in the middle and sclender towarde the tayle so is the muscle or lacerte. 1586 Vigo Wks. 287 b, There is a great lacert which hath two heads and keepeth the bone of the adjutorie that it be not displaced on that side. 1696 Phillips, Lacert,..the Brawny part of the Arm. |