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▪ I. † porphyre Obs.
[a. F. porphyre (Cotgr. 1611), ad. med.L. porphyrius, f. Gr. πορϕύρεος purple.]
Name applied to a kind of serpent.
[1584Greene Anat. Fort. Wks. (Grosart) III. 220 He resembleth the serpent Porphirius, who is full of poison, but being toothlesse hurteth none but him selfe.] 1608Topsell Serpents (1658) 745 Of the Porphyre. There is among the Indians a Serpent about the bignesse of a span or more, which in outward aspect is like to the most beautiful and well coloured Purple. Ibid., Unto this Porphyre I may add the Palmer Serpent.
▪ II. porphyre, -ie
obs. forms of porphyry. |