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Webster 1913 Edition


Fer-de-lance

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Ferˊ-de-lance′

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Noun.
[F., the iron of a lance, lance head.]
(Zool.)
A large, venomous serpent (
Trigonocephalus lanceolatus
) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle.