Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of serpents, giving name to the Viperidæ.
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- noun type genus of the Viperidae
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Examples
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For my part I am persuaded that the slaughter of their parents is either not true at all, or not always (although I doubt not but that nature hath right well provided to inhibit their superfluous increase by some means or other), and so much the rather am I led hereunto for that I gather by Nicander that of all venomous worms the viper only bringeth out her young alive, and therefore is called in Latin vipera quasivivipara, but of her own death he doth not (to my remembrance) say anything.
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Ma se mi toccano dov'è il mio debole sarò una vipera
Archive 2008-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Ma se mi toccano dov'è il mio debole sarò una vipera
Ma se mi toccano dov'è il mio debole sarò una vipera Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Soho the Dog: Ma se mi toccano dov'è il mio debole sarò una vipera
Ma se mi toccano dov'è il mio debole sarò una vipera Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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I was not a little offended with this malady, shall I say my mistress Melancholy, my Aegeria, or my malus genius? and for that cause, as he that is stung with a scorpion, I would expel clavum clavo, [62] comfort one sorrow with another, idleness with idleness, ut ex vipera
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The word viper is interesting; coming directly from the Romans, who wrote it _vipera_.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919
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His chief works are "De 'moti dell' iride" (Lucca, 1765); "Ricerche filosofiche sopra la fiscia animalea" (Florence, 1775); "Ricerche fisiche sopra 'l veneno della vipera" (Lucca, 1767), of which a larger and much extended edition was published in two volumes in 1781; "Descrizioni ed usi di alcuni stromenti per misurer la salubrita dell 'aria" (Florence, 1774);
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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It is testified also by other in other words, and to the like sense, that Echis id est vipera sola ex serpentibus non ova sed animalia parit.
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The viper mentioned in Acts 28: 3 was probably the vipera aspis, or the Mediterranean viper.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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