Her. Obs. [ad. L. vermis worm (Honorius of Autun De Imag. Mundi, I. xiii.), incorrectly taken as the name of a fish.] An alleged fish of the Ganges, able to seize and destroy elephants.
Bossewell elsewhere (II. 66) has the form vermante, prob. an error for verme hariante by accidental omission of letters.
1572. Bossewell, Armorie, III. 25 b. H. hathe to hys Creste, a Verme hariante propre, subsigned about the tayle with a scrowe.
