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Dipsas

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Dip´sas
n.1.A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.
2.(Zool.) A genus of harmless colubrine snakes.
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DIPSAS 1) The spongy tissue between thew hard inner and outer tables of the skull; 2) An oriental unit of weigh, roughly equivalent to fifty grams; 3) A snake whose bite was believed to cause intense thirst.
Word Wizard by The Birmingham Post (England)
And his parodic blason of the aged witch Dipsas is a jarring element in a play celebrating a female ruler who turned fifty-five the year the play was performed at court: O what a fine thin hayre hath Dipsas
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