一切經音義 65.41

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65.41

鴆餌 (poisonous bait: nowadays written as 酖, both pronounced 除 + 禁 [zhèn]. A bird as large as an eagle, purple-green in colour, with a long neck and red beak, that eats snakes; steeping its feathers in wine kills anyone who drinks it. The lower character is 而 + 至 [èr]. The Cang Jie pian says: "餌 means food; anything eaten is called 餌").

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese