Obs. In 4–5 venyn. [a. OF. venin:—L. venēn-um.] Venom, poison.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 9005. Venyn for salue wyþ hym he nam, Als a monk to court he cam.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Three Treat. (1851), p. xxxvi. As Crist techiþ in his gospel, hou þat men shulden … forsake her cumpenye as venyn [v.r. venym].
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 57. Triacle is turnid in to venyn, and þis þat was foundun to remedie, is foundun to deþ.
Hence † Venin v. trans., to poison. Obs.–0
a. 1500. Prompt. Parv., 508/2 (MS. H.). Venynyn or venymyn, veneno.
