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Webster 1913 Edition
Haje
Ha′je
(hä′jē̍)
, Noun.
[Ar.
hayya
snake.] (Zool.)
The Egyptian asp or cobra (
Naja haje
.) It is related to the cobra of India, and like the latter has the power of inflating its neck into a hood. Its bite is very venomous. It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra committed suicide, and hence is sometimes called Cleopatra’s snake
or asp
. See Asp
.