Venom

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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.

Synonyms: Venom; virus; bane. See Poison.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison. [R.] "Venomed vengeance." Shak.