Obs. Also 7 quaui(u)er, quawiuer. [app. f. VIVER; the first element is obscure.] The fish called sea-dragon or dragonet.
1589. Rider, Bibl. Scholast., 1723. A quaviuer, a kind of sea fish, araneus dracæna.
1611. Cotgr., Traigne, the sea Dragon, Viuer, Quauiuer.
1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 258. Quawiuers, for so the Scots and Northern English term them, are very subtile and crafty Fishes.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Fish, Your Quavivers or Perches must be boiled in Water with Salt.
1783. Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (Morell), II. Draco,… a fish called a quaviver.
