- Ill will - Maliciousness - Malignant substance - Toxic substance - Venom - Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism,
is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it;
as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases. - That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as,
the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.
- To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance
noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as
food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to
poison (a person) by impregnating with venom. - To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or
hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter.
- A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American
Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos (S. toxifera,
etc.). It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is
quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians
as an arrow poison.