a. Now dial. Also 9 vemon-. [f. VENOM sb. + -SOME1.] Venomous, spiteful.
1660. Treasons, etc. W. Lilley, 2. Many hundreds such venomsome passages as these.
1876. Whitby Gloss., 209. Vemonsome, spiteful.
1895. J. Prior, Renie, vii. 71. Like a raivenous roaring lion or a venomsome sarpent.
