Definition of "adders" []

• Plural form of adder. (noun)

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• "In that respect, as in others, 'Rome conquered her conquerors;' and the descendants of those Roman lawyers, whom the honest Teutons called adders, and as adders killed them down, destroyed, in course of time,"
• "O son of Kuru, this is the lesson I carefully inculcate, that the wise should never enrage such as adders as have venom in their very glances! '"
• "March comes wi 'adders' heads and gangs wi 'peacocks' tails."