lizard

Any of numerous squamate reptiles often classified in the suborder Lacertilia, characteristically having a scaly elongated body with a tapering tail, four legs, movable eyelids, and external ear openings.

Leather made from the skin of one of these reptiles.

The thorn-tailed lizard, Uromastix acanthinurus.

A scaly four-legged reptile without a shell; a squamate quadruped saurian; a saurian or lacertilian.

Any member of the old order Sauria or modern order Lacertilia.

Nautical, a piece of rope with a thimble or bull’s-eye spliced into one or both ends, used in a vessel as a leader for ropes.

[capitalized] A certain small constellation. See Lacerta, 2.

A crotch of timber or a forked limb used in place of a sled for hauling stone: a form of stone-boat.

In heraldry, a beast like a wildcat, usually represented as spotted: a rare bearing.

Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.