Obs. Also 4 aspidis, 5 aspyde. [ad. L. aspidem, acc. of aspis: see ASP2. Cf. OF. aspide.] By-form of ASP2.
c. 1000. Ags. Ps. xci. 13. Þu ofer aspide [Vulg. supra aspidem] miht eaðe gangan.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter ibid. Oure aspide and basilisk saltou ga.
1393. Gower, Conf., I. 57. A serpent, which that aspidis is cleped.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 221/2. And did doo be put to her … two aspydes.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 356. As for the aspides … whomsoever they have stung, they die vpon it with a kind of deadly sleepinesse.
