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To shake or agitate with violence. Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose. Addison.

The hooded snake (Naia tripudians), a highly venomous serpent inhabiting India.

A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified. The weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's

Any venomous or deadly thing.

Venom; poison. [Obs.] "I'll touch my point with this contagion." Shak.

like some kinds of coral. See Illust. under Coralloid. -- Coral snake. (Zo) (a) A small, venomous, Brazilian snake (Elaps corallinus), coral-red, with black bands. (b) A small, harmless, South American snake (Tortrix scytale). -- Coral tree (Bot.), a tropical, leguminous plant, of several species, with showy, scarlet…

A large and highly venomous Asiatic viper (Daboia xanthica).

resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart. The artful inquiry, whose venomed dart Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart. Hannan More.

A venomous Australian snake of the family Elapidæ, of several species, as the Hoplocephalus superbus and Acanthopis antarctica. -- Death bell, a bell that announces a death. The death bell thrice was heard to ring. Mickle. -- Death candle, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death.…

A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.

Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor. The encysted venom, or poison bag, beneath the adder's fang. Coleridge.

To envenom. [Obs.]

adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes.

prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider. Since I am a dog, beware my fangs. Shak.

A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle.

West Indian lizard (Celestus occiduus), about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous.

native of the dry plains of Arizona, New Mexico, etc. It is the only lizard known to have venomous teeth.

ia, and like the latter has the power of inflating its neck into a hood. Its bite is very venomous. It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra committed suicide, and hence is sometimes called Cleopatra's snake or asp. See Asp.

A large venomous East Indian snake (Orhiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras.

Any sea snake of the genus Hydrophys and allied genera. These snakes are venomous, live upon fishes, and have a flattened tail for swimming.