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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
HAJE
Ha
"
je,
n.
Etym:
[
Ar.
hayya
snake.
] (Zoöl.)
Defn:
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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