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.
© Webster 1913.
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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