Asp

n. [Fr. aspic, Pr. aspic, aspis, Catalan aspit, Sp. & Pg. aspid, It. aspide, Lat. aspis, Gr. ἀσπίς.]

(Zöol.) A small, hooded, and poisonous serpent of Egypt and Libya, whose bite is fatal. It is the Coluber haje, first figured by Savigny in his work on Egypt.

n. [A-S. æspe, æps, æsp, epse, O. H. Ger. aspa, Icel. aspi, Dan. æsp, Sw. asp, D. esp, Ger. espe, üspe, aspe.] (Bot.) One of several species of poplar bearing this name, especially the Populus tremula, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air.