noun. A legendary serpent or dragon with lethal breath and glance.

noun. Any of various tropical American lizards of the genus Basiliscus, having a crest on the head and back and fringes of skin around the toes of the hind feet that enable it to run upright across the surface of water for short distances.

noun. A fabulous creature formerly believed to exist, variously regarded as a kind of serpent, lizard, or dragon, and sometimes identified with the cockatrice.

noun. In herpetology, a lizard of the old genus Basiliscus (which see) in the widest sense.

noun. In ornithology, the golden-crested wren or kinglet. See basiliscus, 2.

noun. A large piece of ordnance: so called from its destructive power.

Pertaining to or characteristic of the basilisk: as, a basilisk eye or look (a sharp, penetrating,malignant eye or look, like that attributed to the basilisk).

noun. 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.

noun. A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidæ.

noun. A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.

noun. A mythical (and heraldic) snake-like dragon type, reputed to be so venomous that its gaze was deadly.

noun. In heraldry, a type of dragon

noun. A treedwelling type of lizard, of genus Basiliscus.

noun. A type of large brass cannon.

noun. ancient brass cannon

noun. small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs; of tropical America

noun. (classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance

"The basilisk is the enemy of the yale, and if it finds the yale asleep it stings it between the eyes, causing its eyes to swell until they burst."

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