Varanus (varan us)

[NL. (Merrem), under acrodont. of farthingale. Or, if they [stiff pickadils] would not bend, whipping your rebellious var ding a les with my [Cupid's] bow string, and made them run up into your waists (they have lain so flat) for fear of my indignation. B. Jonson, Challenge at Tilt. varelt (var), n. [ vara , a rod, pole, yardstick, vara , wooden horse or trestle variability for spreading nets, also a forked stick, varus , bent, crooked: see varus .] A wand or staff of authority. author His hand a vare of justice did uphold; His neck was loaded with a chain of gold. Dryden, Abs. and Achit., i. 595. vare2 (var), n. [Prob. a form of vair.] A weasel. varec (var'ek), n. [F. varech, OF. werecq, werech = Pr. varec (ML. warescum, wreckum ), in one view Cottonade pantaloons, stuffed into a pair of dirty boots, and a vareuse of the same stuff, made up his dre . His vareuse, unbuttoned, showed his breast brown and hairy. G. W. Cable, Stories of Louisiana, Françoise, i. vare-widgeon (var'wijon), n. The weasel duck; the female or young male of the smew, Mergellus albellus. Montagu. [North Devon, Eng.]