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Cleopatra learned from them, it is said, that the bite of the asp was the easiest and least painful mode of death.

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  1. noun Any of several venomous snakes of Africa, Asia, and Europe, such as the small cobra (Naja haje) or the horned viper (Cerastes cornutus).

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  • But the next morning we went to the quaking-asp thicket, and there, sure enough, we found the same band of elk, and succeeded in killing five of them. —  Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains
  • The quaking-asp, balm and various other kinds of small timber that grew along the streams all helped to add to the beauty of the scene. —  Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains
  • Cleopatra learned from them, it is said, that the bite of the asp was the easiest and least painful mode of death. —  Cleopatra
  • The molecule of the hormone, as obtained from swine pituitary, was found to consist of 18 amino acids in the following order: asp-glu-gly'pro-tyr-lys-met-glu-riis-phe-arg-try-gly-ser -- pro-pro-lys-asp MSH If you compare the molecule of MSH with that of ACTH given on page 83, you will see that there is a seven-amino-acid sequence that the two hold in common: met'glu'his-phe-arg'trygly. —  The Human Brain
  • "But the truth is that Mother was going to tell me that my memory wasn't lying to me, wasn't she, Dad? —  A Traitor to Memory
 

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  1. Middle English aspis, from Latin, from Greek.

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  1. from Middle English asp, aspe, espe, from Anglo-Saxon *æsp, æspe, aspe, espe, transposed æps, = Dutch esp = Old High German aspa, Middle High German aspe, German espe = Icel, ösp, asp, espi, aspen wood, = Danish Swedish asp, asp; origin unknown. The English form aspen is properly an adjective: see aspen.
  2. In Middle English as L., aspis; Old French aspe = Provencal aspic (later F. aspic, later English aspic, q. v.) = Spanish aspid, aspide = Portuguese Italian aspide, from Latin aspis (aspid-), from Greek ἀσπίς (ἀσπιδ-), an asp, Egyptian viper.
 

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