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f the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus. [Archaic]

Beautiful. [R.] E. Waterhouse.

To deprive of beauty or grace. [Obs.]

Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. "Fair Adonean Venus." Faber.

A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus. "Aphrodisian dames" [that is, courtesans]. C. Reade.

The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.

Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper. Chaucer. -- Body snatcher, one who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a resurrectionist. -- Body snatching (Law), the unauthorized removal of a dead body from the grave…

hich Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.

A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.

equal share of authority. [Obs.] Beauté ne sleighte, strengthe ne hardyness, Ne may with Venus holde champartye. Chaucer.

cially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve. You shall scarce find any…

r colcothar) thus produced from salts of irron, and used as a polishing powder. Crocus of Venus (Old Chem.), oxide of copper.

The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow. Pretty dimpled boys, like smiling cupids. Shak.

Pertaining to the goddess Venus.

An insectivorous plant. See Venus's flytrap.

clipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet.

The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury.

g of interwoven siliceous fibers, and growing in the form of a cornucopia; -- called also Venus's flower-basket.

A plant (Dionæa muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leave…