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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] thirst.]

A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.

Milton.

(Zool.)

A genus of harmless colubrine snakes.

Noun.

[gr., dry, thirsty; to thirst.] A serpent whose bite produces a mortal thirst. See Deuteronomy 8.