basilisk

IPA: bˈæzʌɫˈɪsk

A mythical snake-like dragon, so venomous that even its gaze was deadly.
(science fiction) An infohazard or cognitohazard, especially a Langford's basilisk.
(heraldry) A type of dragon used in heraldry.
Any of the tree-dwelling of lizard of the genus Basiliscus: the basilisk lizard.
A type of large brass cannon.

Examples of "basilisk" in Sentences

Nowadays, the poet would call a basilisk bonny rather than miss his alliteration.
Her eye was like that of the fabled serpent, called the basilisk, and in her anger she ever struck terror.
There was the completion of the circle: the basilisk was a small lizard, but its glance could stun or kill other creatures.
As he spoke he realized something that had not quite surfaced before: the basilisk was a magical creature that could do magic.
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.
The basilisk is a fabulous conglomerate, a winged animal formed with the three-crested head of a cock and the body of a lizardlike serpent with a three-pointed tail.
The basilisk was the Phoenix of the serpent-tribe; and the vase or urn was probably the vessel, shaped like a cucumber, with a projecting spout, out of which, on the monuments of Egypt, the priests are represented pouring streams of the _cruz ansata_ or Tau Cross, and of _sceptres_, over the kings.