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Seraph \Ser"aph\, n.; pl. E. Seraphs, Heb. Seraphim. [Heb. ser[=a]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["o]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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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