Definition
• | 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. |
• | Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer. |
• | To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison. |