Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging. Or hurtful worm with cankered venom bites. Milton.
Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer. "The venom of such looks." Shak.
To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison. [R.] "Venomed vengeance." Shak.
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