Obs. [Sp. lagarto: see ALLIGATOR.] An alligator.
1577. Frampton, Joyful News, II. 73 b. Pimple stones … whiche are founde in greate quantitie in the mawes of Caimanes, yt are called Lagartos.
1596. Raleigh, Discov. Guiana, 48. We saw in it [the Orenoque] diuers sorts of strange fishes, & of maruellous bignes, but for Lagartos it exceeded, for there were thousands of those vglie serpents.
1600. Hakluyt, Voy., III. 489. In this riuer we killed a monstrous Lagarto or Crocodile.
