venom, venime, venome, venym, venyme

& a. [O. Fr. venim (Fr. venin ), from Lat. venenum =poison. For the change of n tom, cf. vellum.] A. As substantive: I. Literally: 1. Poison generally. (Now only used in this sense in poetry.) "If the i drynken ony venym it schal not no ye hem."Wycliffe: Mark xvi. 2. The poisonous fluid secreted by animals in a state of health, and introduced into the bodies of their victims by biting, as in the case of serpents, or by stinging, as the case of scorpions, . "For venome a small green snake is bad enough." Dampier: Voyages (an. 1699). II. Fig .: Anything that poisons, blights, cankers, or embitters; hence, spite, malignity, virulence. "The venom of such looks." --Shakesp .: Henry V., v. 2. sin, as; expect , Xenophon, exist. ph = f IMG:content-0444.png:[blocks in formation] "This butcher's cur is renom -mouthed." Shakesp.: Henry III., 1. 1. *věn'-om, v . t. & i. [VENOM, 8.] A. Trans.: To infect with venom; to envenom, to poison. "For men, that ben venymed , thorg grases of Yrlond Y-dronke he beth y-clansed sone, thoru Gode's sonde." Robert of Gloucester , p. 43. B. In trans.: To become as if infected with venom. "Take out the temporal sting, that it shall not venom and fester." -Jeremy Taylor: Ductor Dubitantium . věn-omed, *ven-ymed, a. [Eng. venom; -ed.] Envenomed, poisonous, poisoned. "Her husband had catched a great wounde in his arme with a venomed sworde."- Vives : Instruction of a Christian Woman , bk. ii., ch. iv.