Usually means: Mythical serpent that petrifies onlookers.
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  1. basilisk: Merriam-Webster
  2. basilisk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. basilisk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. basilisk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. basilisk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Basilisk, basilisk: Wordnik
  7. basilisk: Wiktionary
  8. basilisk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. basilisk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. basilisk: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Basilisk, basilisk: Dictionary.com
  12. basilisk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Basilisk (D'erlanger album), Basilisk (Harry Potter), Basilisk (The Legendary Pink Dots album), Basilisk (Wayne Gifford), Basilisk (anime), Basilisk (cannon), Basilisk (comics), Basilisk (disambiguation), Basilisk (manga), Basilisk (web browser), Basilisk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Basilisk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. basilisk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. basilisk: Rhymezone
  17. Basilisk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. basilisk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Basilisk: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. basilisk: FreeDictionary.org
  21. basilisk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. basilisk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. basilisk: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. basilisk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. basilisk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. basilisk: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Basilisk: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. basilisk: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (basilisk)

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

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