Haje

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Haje \Ha"je\ (h[aum]"j[-e]), n. [Ar. hayya snake.] (Zool.)
     The Egyptian asp or cobra ({Naja haje}.) It is related to the
     cobra of India, and like the latter has the power of
     inflating its neck into a hood. Its bite is very venomous. It
     is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra
     committed suicide, and hence is sometimes called {Cleopatra's


     snake} or {asp}. See {Asp}.
     [1913 Webster]