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Webster 1913 Edition

Venom

Ven′om

,
Noun.
[OE.
venim
, OF.
venim
,
venin
, F.
venin
, L.
venenum
. Cf.
Venenate
.]
1.
Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by biting or stinging.
Or hurtful worm with cankered
venom
bites.
Milton.
2.
Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality.
Chaucer.
“The venom of such looks.”
Shak.
Syn. – Venom; virus; bane. See
Poison
.

Ven′om

,
Verb.
T.
[OE.
venimen
, OF.
venimer
, L.
venenare
. See
Venom
,
Noun.
]
To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
[R.]
“Venomed vengeance.”
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Venom

VEN'OM

,
Noun.
[L. venenum, venor, to hunt, to drive or chase; venio, to come. See Venus, &c.]
1.
Poison; matter fatal or injurious to life. Venom is generally used to express noxious matter that is applied externally, or that is discharged from animals, as that of bites and stings of serpents, scorpions, &c.; and poison, to express substances taken into the stomach.
2.
Spite; malice.

VEN'OM

,
Verb.
T.
To poison; to infect with venom. [Little used, but envenom is in use and elegant. Venom may be elegantly used in poetry.]

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