单词 | dipsas |
释义 | dipsasn. 1. A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce a raging thirst. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > mythical types of serpent (miscellaneous) siren1340 dipsas1382 haemorrhoida1398 prestera1398 bloodworm1587 viper1602 dryine1605 dipsad1608 lindworm1814 lingworm1870 rainbow serpent1926 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. viii. 15 Scorpioun, and dipsas, that is, an eddre that whom he biteth, he maketh thurȝ threste die. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) v. iii. 198/1 Flaterers be lykened to an adder that is called dypsa. 1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 63 A Dipsez verte, charged on the firste quarter. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxii. xv. 213 Of serpents, to wit..the Dipsades, and the Vipers. 1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) ix. 703 Dipsases in midst of water dry. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 526 Scorpion and Asp, and Amphisbæna dire, Cerastes hornd, Hydrus, and Ellops drear, And Dipsas . View more context for this quotation c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies xx. 39 Here the dry dipsa writhes his sinuous mail. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. iv. 112 It thirsted As one bit by a dipsas. 1894 F. S. Ellis Reynard the Fox 336 A dipsas is a worm accurst, From whose bite follows raging thirst. 2. Zoology. a. A tropical genus of non-venomous serpents. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of subfamily Dipsadidae tree-serpent1731 dipsas1841 1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 280 Under the non-venomous [serpents] are arranged the following genera:—Tortrix: Boa..Coluber..Dipsas. b. A genus of freshwater bivalves of the family Unionidæ, or river-mussels. ΚΠ 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 5 Mr. J. E. Gray makes the Unionidæ the eighth family of his order Cladopoda. Genera:—Anodon, Margaritana, Dipsas. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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