Usage examples (27)

• Dictionary under the word cerastes; and every time that we write one of these letters we are making a faded copy of the old picture.
• The cerastes is a snake with horns like a ram's on its head; from this it gets its name, for the Greeks call horns kerata.
• At the halting-place a "cerastes" (Echis carinata, Merr.), so called from the warty hollows over the eyes (?), was brought to me in a water-bag; the bearer transferred...
• Non solum enim coluber antichristus set etiam cerastes uocatur.