Contextualizebeta

venom

noun
/ˈvɛnəm/

Etymology

From Middle English venym, from Old French venim, from Vulgar Latin *venīmen, from Early Medieval Latin venīnum, from Classical Latin venēnum (“drug; poison; a charm”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to love”). Doublet of venin and venene.

  1. derived from *wenh₁-✻ — “to love”
  2. derived from venēnum — “drug; poison; a charm”
  3. derived from venīnum
  4. derived from venim
  5. inherited from venym

Definitions

  1. An animal toxin intended for defensive or offensive use

    An animal toxin intended for defensive or offensive use; a biological poison delivered by bite, sting, etc., to protect an animal or to kill its prey.

    • […] There may be in the cup / A spider steep’d, and one may drink, depart, / And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge / Is not infected...
    • And from the Boughs brush off the evil dew, / And heal the harms of thwarting thunder blew, / Or what the cross dire-looking Planet smites, / Or hurtfull Worm with canker’d venom bites […]
    • I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.

  2. Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice

    Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice; vitriol.

    • The venom of such looks, we fairly hope, / Have lost their quality, and that this day / Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.
    • My daughter […] has no occasion to dispute the identity of your person; the venom of your present language is sufficient to remind her that she speaks with the mortal enemy of her father.

  3. To infect with venom

    To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.

    • Let’s leave the hermit pity with our mothers, / And when we have our armours buckled on, / The venom’d vengeance ride upon our swords, / Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from ruth.
    • The Dragon is a venemous beast, and poisoneth all where he lieth; he beats the Earth bare, and venoms it, that it will bear no grass […]
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Poisonous, poisoned

      Poisonous, poisoned; (figuratively) pernicious.

      • Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud? / Or hateful cuckoos hatch in sparrows’ nests? / Or toads infect fair founts with venom mud?
      • […] it is stopp’d with other flattering sounds, / As praises, of whose taste the wise are fond, / Lascivious metres, to whose venom sound / The open ear of youth doth always listen;

The neighborhood

Derived

antivenom, antivenomics, antivenomous, dilute Russell's viper venom time, envenom, envenomate, envenomation, envenomization, nonvenomous, outvenom, Russell's viper venom clotting time, Russell's viper venom time, spit venom, venomic, venomics, venomization, venomless, venomlike, venomosalivary, venomosity, venomous, venomously, venomousness, venomsome

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at venom. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01venom02sting03arachnid04scorpions05scorpion06venomous

A definitional loop anchored at venom. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at venom

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA