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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Booklover and His Books] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

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 it to the spirit-bottle by neatly thrusting a packing-needle through the head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference

Non solum enim coluber antichristus set etiam cerastes uocatur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

It is supposed by Bochart to be the cerastes, "a serpent so called," says Calmet, "because it has horns on its forehead.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference

The cerastes is also employed occasionally by the snake-charmers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference

The cerastes is of a very pale brown color, and is spotted with large, unequal, and irregularly-placed spots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference

All along the coast is a cerastes (horned snake), whose armature is upon the snout and whose short fat form suggests the puff-adder.    From Wordnik.com.  [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference

In Egypt, on the other hand, the cobra, the asp, and the cerastes are as numerous as ever, and are much dreaded by all the natives except the professional snake charmers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference

A dangerous serpent this; one never sees him, or hears him speak, or observes the dark glitter of his eye, without being reminded of a cerastes lythely rustling through the dry grass towards its victim.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Winifred's, or The World of School] Reference

The bite is fatal, like that of the cerastes; birds are literally struck down by the strength of the poison, while the great mammals, and man himself, almost invariably succumb to it after a longer or shorter death-struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)] Reference

As an instance, that the eggs of poisonous serpents do not always burst in the body of the female, we may mention the cerastes, which, we are assured, lays in the sand at least four or five, resembling in size those of a dove.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time] Reference

The sacred beetle, the hooded cobra, the eared cerastes, the scorpion, the lizard, and all creatures that burrow in the sands or lurk in rocks and caves, have likewise their place in this wonderful picture-gallery – for that is just what it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference

Why should not the graceful and deadly cobra, the horrid cerastes, the huge throttling python, and even more, the loathly puff-adder, undistinguishable from the gravel among which he lay coiled, till he leaped furiously and unswerving, as if shot from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermits] Reference

At the halting-place a “cerastes” (Echis carinata.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian] Reference

2 (PLA2) isolated from cerastes cerastes venom, also showed anti-integrin activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

( "creeping"), occurring only in Gen. 49: 17, the small speckled venomous snake, the "horned snake," or cerastes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

"Judge his anguish then, and my disappointment, when, seven days before her twenty-first birthday, she was bitten by a cerastes, and her body died.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weapons of Mystery] Reference

A cerastes upon the track.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference

Crotalus cerastes, the North American sidewinder!.    From Wordnik.com.  [My herps are cooler than your herps] Reference

5. cockatrice -- probably the basilisk serpent, cerastes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Shephiphon, the cerastes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time] Reference

Sed ille mordet ut cerastes in via.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849] Reference

The cerastes is extremely venomous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

Century Dictionary, illustration of cerastes, 81.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Booklover and His Books] Reference

Their volumes; adders and cerastes crept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference

CC-PLA2-1 and CC-PLA2-2, two cerastes cerastes venom-derived phospholipases A2, inhibit angiogenesis both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference