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A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (or Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.

A dragon fly.

A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.

The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta).

A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.

compar. of Bad, a. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.

A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.

A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.

Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.

One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.

One who makes glad. Chaucer.

Heather; heath. [Obs.] Burton.

The jackdaw.

cross strips or rounds forming steps. Some the engines play, And some, more bold, mount ladders to the fire. Dryden.

A plant of the Rubia (R. tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous.

A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order (Rubiaceæ) as the madder.

An adder. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who, or that which, pads.

Same as Sadda.