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English Dictionary: venom by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
venom
n
  1. toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions)
  2. feeling a need to see others suffer
    Synonym(s): malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Venom \Ven"om\, v. t. [OE. venimen, OF. venimer, L. venenare.
      See {Venom}, n.]
      To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison. [R.] [bd]Venomed
      vengeance.[b8] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Venom \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. [bd]The
            venom of such looks.[b8] --Shak.
  
      Syn: Venom; virus; bane. See {Poison}.
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