1. any of numerous reptiles of the suborder Sauria or Lacertilia, characteristically having a scaly elongated body, movable eyelids, four legs, and a tapering tail.
2. leather made from the skin of one of these reptiles.

1. any reptile of the order squamata, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.
2. lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
3. an unctuous person.
4. A coward.

1. any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.
2. A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.
3. A piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field.

1. A scaly four-legged reptile without a shell; a squamate quadruped saurian; a saurian or lacertilian.
2. any member of the old order Sauria or modern order Lacertilia.
3. 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.
4. [capitalized] A certain small constellation. see lacerta, 2.
5. A crotch of timber or a forked limb used in place of a sled for hauling stone: a form of stone-boat.
6. in heraldry, a beast like a wildcat, usually represented as spotted: a rare bearing.
7. the thorn-tailed lizard, Uromastix acanthinurus.

1. relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
2. a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him