seraph : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: seraph	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for seraph
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
seraph n an angel of the first order; usually portrayed as the winged head of a child
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Seraph \Ser"aph\, n.; pl. E. {Seraphs}, Heb. {Seraphim}. [Heb. ser[be]phim, pl.] One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels. --Isa. vi. 2. As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. --Pope. {Seraph moth} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of geometrid moths of the genus {Lobophora}, having the hind wings deeply bilobed, so that they seem to have six wings.