Ven"om (?), n. [OE. venim, OF. venim, F. venin, L. veneum. Cf. Venenate.]

1.

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.

2.

Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer.

"The venom of such looks."

Shak.

Syn. -- Venom; virus; bane. See Poison.

 

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Ven"om, v. t. [OE. venimen, OF. venimer, L. venenare. See Venom, n.]

To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.

[R.] "Venomed vengeance."

Shak.

 

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