cobra

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The person inoculated by the cobra is at once seized by his friends, and constant and violent exercise enforced, if necessary at the point of stick, and severe and cruel (but nevertheless truly merciful) beatings are often a result.

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  1. noun Any of several venomous snakes, especially of the genus Naja, that are native to Asia and Africa and are capable of expanding the skin of the neck to form a flattened hood.
  2. noun Leather made from the skin of one of these snakes.

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  • He tamed a highly dangerous cobra, a popular symbol of the divine, which the brahmins housed in their sacred fire chamber. —  Buddha
  • The electric rope snapped itself upward and hovered in the air like a cobra, awaiting its next command. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 03 - September 1999
  • He looked in its eyes for the cobra, the towering wave, the girl with the board, the bleeding door, but he saw none of these things. —  FSF,August2005
  • The Sinhalese nationalist Rajapaksa was called a cobra - an identifiable enemy. —  India eNews
  • You must be very quick about this, as the cobra wastes no time in striking at you. —  Gamezebo: Casual Game Reviews, Previews, Cheats, Tips, Forums, Free Games, and More
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  1. Short for Portuguese cobra (de capello), snake (with a hood), from Latin colubra, feminine of coluber.
 

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