The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . e, where the Latin and its deriva-tives prevail, both are represented by the wordvipera (viper). The first radically indicatespoison; the second, pain, distress, strife; thethird, parturition of offspring, not in the state ofan egg, but of the perfect animal. Though notclearly distinguished, in common acceptation,from innoxious snakes, all strictly indicate ser-pents armed with poisonous
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . e, where the Latin and its deriva-tives prevail, both are represented by the wordvipera (viper). The first radically indicatespoison; the second, pain, distress, strife; thethird, parturition of offspring, not in the state ofan egg, but of the perfect animal. Though notclearly distinguished, in common acceptation,from innoxious snakes, all strictly indicate ser-pents armed with poisonous fangs, and thereforeall are truly viviparous. In the English versionof the Bible the name adder occurs several times.(See Serpent.) (1) Cobra. The most prominent species ofthe genus at present is the naja tripudians, cobra ADDER 53 ADDER di capcllo, hooded or spectacled snake of India,venerated by the natives; even by the serpent-charmers styled the good serpent to this day,and yet so ferocious that it is one of the veryfew that will attack a man when surprised inits haunt, although it may be gorged with species is usually marked on the nape withtwo round spots, transversely connected in the. Egyptian Adder. form of a pair of spectacles; but among severalvarieties, one, perhaps distinct, is without themarks, and has a glossy golden hood, which maymake it identical with the naja liajc of Egypt,the undoubted Ihh-nuphi, oneph, or agatho-daemon of ancient Egypt, and accurately repre-sented on the walls of its temples, in almost in-numerable instances, both in form and serpent also inflates the skin on the neck, notin the expanded form of a hood, but rather intoan intumefaction of the neck. As in the former,there is no marked difference of appearance be-tween the sexes, but the psilli, or charmers, bya particular pressure on the neck, have thepower of rendering the inflation of the ani-mal, already noticed as a character of the genus,so intense, that the serpe
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