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(1):

(v. i.) To act as, or convey, a poison.

(2):

(n.) Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.

(3):

(n.) To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.

(4):

(n.) To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind.

(5):

(n.) To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.

(6):

(n.) That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Poison'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/poison.html. 1828.
 
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