Definitions for ASP

ASP asp

Spelling: [asp]
IPA: /æsp/

Asp is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in ASP (aps).

Definitions for ASP

noun

  1. any of several venomous snakes, especially the Egyptian cobra or the horned viper.
  2. Archaeology. uraeus.

noun, adjective

  1. aspen.

Origin of ASP

1300-50; back formation from Middle English aspis (taken as plural) Latin Greek aspís orig., shield

Examples for ASP

Woodmen always call the aspen the 'asp,' dropping the termination.

Fierce is the dragon and cunning the asp; but woman has the malice of both.

The hookworm, deadly as an asp, has got you in its loathsome grasp!

Cleopatra was aware of this, and begged Charmian to remember the asp.

Cleopatra was caused by the death of an asp which she dissolved in a wine cup.

An ancient marble at Rome represents Cleopatra with the asp on her arm.

They have the ferocity of a bulldog and the venom of the Egyptian asp.

The asp was worshipped by the Egyptians under the name of urus.

After that he was to be ready with the asp in the fish-market every day.

I doubt it will be more like the asp in the Bible story, eh!

Word Value for ASP
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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