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haye |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Haye \Ha"ye\, n. [Ar. hayya snake.] (Zo["o]l.) The Egyptian asp or cobra ({Naja haje}.) It is related to the cobra of India, and like the latter has the power of inflating its neck into a hood. Its bite is very venomous. It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra committed suicide, and hence is sometimes called {Cleopatra's snake} or {asp}. See {Asp}.
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