BASILISK
\bˈazɪlˌɪsk], \bˈazɪlˌɪsk], \b_ˈa_z_ɪ_l_ˌɪ_s_k]\
Definitions of BASILISK
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.
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A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae.
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A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.
By Oddity Software
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A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.
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A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae.
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A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.
By Noah Webster.
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A fabulous serpent having a crest on its head like a crown: in modern zoology, a kind of crested lizard.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald