Meaning of Adder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any snake.
   obsolete
2. Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
3. A person who has attention deficit disorder.
   informal
4. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling a viper.
   British
5. A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
   British
6. An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
7. A common European adder (Vipera berus).
   British
8. Something which adds or increases.
9. A puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis).
10. Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling adders
    Canada, US
11. A milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum).
    Canada, US
12. A hog-nosed snake, of genus Heterodon of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
    Canada, US
13. Certain venomous snakes resembling other adders
14. Death adders (Acanthophis spp.), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
15. A northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen), a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
16. A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).

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Examples

“CALIBAN: His spirits hear me, / And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch / Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i'th' mire, / Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark / Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but / For every trifle are they set upon me, / Sometimes like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which / Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount / Their pricks at my footfall; sometimes am I / All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues / Do hiss me into madness—”

“Entirely filled with the image of another, her heart, indeed, had the deaf ear of the adder, which heedeth not the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.”

“These include the county's [Cumbria's] only venomous snake - the adder - which relies on exposed elements to successfully breed its young.”

“They sought out cost adders with an eye toward eliminating them.”

“Many ADDers become targets for bullies and are routinely harassed at school.”

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