Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In anatomy, a bite, biting, or morsure.

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Examples

  • Ages ago, hed slipped the morsus into their wine before theyd learned to identify potions by smell and tasteand before theyd learned to create their own to counter him.

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  • Though shed grown confident about defeating the morsus, she always had a plan B.

    Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009

  • Perhaps I should withhold the morsus to spur you on.

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  • But she wondered if anything could be worse than facing the morsus withdrawal?

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  • Out of curiosityand for no other reasonSabine had asked the woman if Rydstrom would have been poisoned by the morsus if hed bitten her neck.

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  • Every month, Omort gave her and Lanthe the morsus, literally the stinging bite poison.

    Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009

  • This meant she had one fewer day until the morsus would strike.

    Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009

  • This is the morsus, the cruelest poisonbecause it causes inconceivable pain upon the withdrawal.

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  • Sabine would give anything for the antidote to his morsus.

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  • But she could just imagine explaining the morsus to him.

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