Definition of venom

• n. - 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.
• n. - Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer.
• n. - To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.