- 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.
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