Wyvern

wī′vrn, n. ( her. ) a fictitious monster allied to the dragon and the griffin, and having its two legs and feet like those of the eagle. [O. Fr. wivre , a viper—L. viper a .] X to Xyster fāte, fär; mē, hėr; mīne; mōte; mūte; mōōn; th en. IMG:c396_png_120px_Chambers_1908_X.png_utm_source_en.wiki source.org_utm_campaign_parser_utm_content_thumbnail:Chambers_1908_X.png-120px-Chambers_1908_X.png?utm_source=en.wiki source.org _campaign=parser _content=thumbnail X is the twenty-fourth letter in our alphabet, having in modern English the value of ks , which it had in Anglo-Saxon—except at the beginning of a word, as in X-ray, where it is pronounced like 'Z’’ in xylophone. As a numeral X stands for ten, IMG:c397_x_Chambers_1908_X_Rotated.png_utm_source_en.wiki source.org_utm_campaign_parser_utm_content_thumbnail:Chambers_1908_X_Rotated.png-20px-Chambers_1908_X_Rotated.png?utm_source=en.wiki source.org _campaign=parser _content=thumbnail for a you sand, X for ten you sand; X as an abbreviation represents the word Christ—Xian, Xerox; x in algebra is the first of the unknown quantities; and the use of X, XX, and XXX on barrels of stout is a well-known way of indicating the quality.— X-rays , the name given by Röntgen of Würzburg in 1895 to those dark or invisible rays emitted, for taking pictures under the influence of an electric current, from a gla -bulb highly exhausted of air through an aluminium window into a close box, and which when pa ed through the hand or other part of the body imprint a shadow-picture of the bones on a sensitive photographic plate—a discovery of high value in surgery, enabling a bullet, ., embedded in the flesh to be carefully localised.