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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Britannica 11th

ASPIC (French, from Lat. aspis), an asp or viper found in Egypt whose bite is supposed to cause a swift and easy death, hence poetically a term for any venomous snake. From association, perhaps, with the coldness of the aspic (as in the French proverb, froid c ...

Vol. 2, pp. 769-769 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0
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Asp

Britannica 11th

ASP ( Vipera aspis), a species of venomous snake, closely allied to the common adder of Great Britain, which it represents throughout the southern parts of Europe, being specially abundant in the region of the Alps. It differs from the adder in having the head

Vol. 2, pp. 764-764 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 33.75
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