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in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging. Or hurtful worm with cankered venom bites. Milton.

Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.

To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom. Alcides . . . felt the envenomed robe. Milton. O, what a world is this, when what…

See Envenom.

To exceed in venom.

Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth. [R.] Hooker.

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.

Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.

The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom.

A genus of venomous ticks which attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is A. Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is A. Talaje.

ltivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows.

The venomous asp. [Chiefly poetic] Shak. Tennyson.

Poison; venom; corrupt matter from a sore. [Obs.] Holland.

To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag. A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. Dryden.

A large South African tree snake (Bucephalus Capensis). Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.

A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.

amochoerus Africanus); -- called also bush pig, and water hog. -- Bush master (Zoöl.), a venomous snake (Lachesis mutus) of Guinea; -- called also surucucu. -- Bush pea (Bot.), a variety of pea that needs to be bushed. -- Bush shrike (Zoöl.), a bird of the genus Thamnophilus, and allied genera; -- called also batarg…

To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. Deceit and cankered malice. Dryden. As with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers. Shak.

Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. "A cankered grandam's will." Shak.

A species of the Myriapoda; esp. the large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet. [Written also centipede (