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. ``The venom of such looks.'' --Shak.

Syn: Venom; virus; bane. See Poison.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Venom \Ven"om\, v. t. [OE. venimen, OF. venimer, L. venenare. See Venom, n.]

To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison. [R.]

``Venomed vengeance.'' --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)