Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Poisonous; full of poison.
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Examples
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This province of Amapaia is a very low and a marish ground near the river; and by reason of the red water which issueth out in small branches thorough the fenny and boggy ground, there breed divers poisonful worms and serpents.
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This man is called, 'a root that beareth gall and wormwood, 'or a poisonful herb, such an one as is abominated of God, yea, the abhorred of his soul.
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This province of Amapaia is a very low and a marish ground near the river; and by reason of the red water which issueth out in small branches through the fenny and boggy ground, there breed divers poisonful worms and serpents.
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'Looking diligently -- lest any root of bitterness -- [any poisonful herb (Deut
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