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# asp

«asp» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **snake; viper** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

snake; viper

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A small, poisonous snake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/asp/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Rare today, and mostly found in old stories. We would just say snake or viper.

### examples

- Their wine is the venom of serpents, and the cruel poison of asps. (Torah DEU.32.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/asp/#x1)
- And the fox went on till he nearly fell over an asp who was gliding across the road. (The Brown Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/asp/#x2)
- “Well, if you only want them for a short time, perhaps I could manage,” answered the asp; “but I can’t do without them for long.” (The Brown Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/asp/#x3)

### primary record

asp

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 7 (Torah 0, tales 7, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.8 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [Their wine is the venom of serpents, and the cruel poison of asps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.918/)
- [Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.950/)
- [Thou shalt tread upon the lion and asp; the young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under feet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1648/)
- [Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.511/)
- [He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.513/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «asp» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/asp/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.