Obs. Also warral, waral, (woralla). [a. Arab. waral.] A monitor lizard; = VARAN.
1714. Maundrell, Journ. Aleppo, Add. 3. Here is found a large Serpent which has legs and claws, called Woralla.
1738. T. Shaw, Trav., 429. Of the Lizard Kind, the Warral is of so docible a Nature, and appears withal to be so affected with Musick, that I have seen several of them keep exact Time and Motion with the Dervishes, in their circulatory Dances.
1743. R. Pococke, Descr. East, I. 208. The Worral … is … four feet long,… has a forked tongue.
1744. C. Thompson, Trav., III. 326. The Worral is a Sort of Lizard, which sometimes is thirty or forty Inches in Length.
