veˈnenous, a. Now rare.
Also 5 Sc. wenenows, 7 venenouse.
[ad. late L. venēnōs-us, or f. L. venēn-um + -ous. Cf. F. vénéneus.]
= venenose a.
| c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. iv. 319 A serpent al vgly,..Fel apperande and wenenows. Ibid. vii. vii. 1353 His mynyster, þat made hym þan serwis, Prewaly put in his chalice Wenenows poysson. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Venenous, full of poyson or venom. 1661 Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 328 If it exceed it's turned into the plague, which is a venenouse disease of the heart. 1682 Lond. Gaz. No. 1714/5 That Traiterous, Venenous, Insinuating and Trapaning Association, lately found in the Closet of the Earl of Shaftsbury. |