† ˈaspide Obs.
Also 4 aspidis, 5 aspyde.
[ad. L. aspidem, acc. of aspis: see asp2. Cf. OF. aspide.]
By-form of asp2.
| c 1000 Ags. Ps. xci. 13 Þu ofer aspide [Vulg. supra aspidem] miht eaðe gangan. a 1300 E.E. Psalter ibid., Oure aspide and basilisk saltou ga. 1393 Gower Conf. I. 57 A serpent, which that aspidis is cleped. 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 221/2 And did doo be put to her..two aspydes. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 356 As for the aspides..whomsoever they have stung, they die vpon it with a kind of deadly sleepinesse. |