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Answer for the clue "Legendary serpent ", 8 letters:
basilisk

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Word definitions for basilisk in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Latin basiliscus , from Greek basiliskos "little king," diminutive of basileus "king" (see Basil ); said by Pliny to have been so called because of a crest or spot on its head resembling a crown.The basilisk has since the fourteenth century ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Basilisk \Bas"i*lisk\, n. [L. basiliscus, Gr. basili`skos little king, kind of serpent, dim. of basiley`s king; -- so named from some prominences on the head resembling a crown.] A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Suggesting a basilisk (snake-like dragon): baleful, spellbinding. n. 1 A mythical (and heraldic) snake-like dragon type, reputed to be so venomous that its gaze was deadly. 2 (context heraldiccharge English) A type of dragon used in heraldry. 3 A tree-dwelling ...

Usage examples of basilisk.

Even without the Basilisk damage, the sheer astrographic scale of her ops area would have created enough consternation on our side to make all her losses worthwhile.

Caladrius had become a raven-bone pipe and outstared a basilisk: there had been no raven, no basilisk.

Despite the passage of twenty-some years and the increasingly obvious predation of the PRH, the arguments against keeping the Basilisk System had not quieted in the least.

Be thou like the imperial Basilisk Killing thy foe with unapparent wounds!

When he got back to the Carara station, he had checked the small research library there, but found no reference to basilisk lizard bites.

Faced with a firelit pool of weapons and the basilisk rampant everywhere he looked, his quivering face drained the color of suet.

I still think your daughter was bitten by a common basilisk amoratus, and had a severe herpetological reaction.

Stout of heart are they, and instructed in all lore, and Juss a sorcerer of ancient power, who hath charms to blunt the glance of basilisk or cockatrice.

Basilisk followed with a pavane for the entrance of the Nine Dukes and their households.

CCTV terminals--or private camcorders equipped with a digital video link--will be reprogrammable by any authenticated MAGINOT BLUE STARS superuser to permit the operator to turn them into a SCORPION STARE basilisk weapon.

Basilisk and the roiling cesspool of political chaos laughingly called the Silesian Confederacy.

He had worked until late in the night at HQ and all that morning, setting up the Identicast of Blofeld, checking details with Ronnie Vallance, fixing up the private, the Munich side of his life, chattering on the teleprinter to Station Z, even remembering to tell Mary Goodnight to get on to Sable Basilisk after the holiday and ask him to please do some kind of a job on the surnames of the ten girls and please to have the family tree of Ruby Windsor embellished with gold capitals.

The defense minister faltered as Anderson turned his basilisk gaze on him, then continued.

African beasts, were hippogriffs, unicorns, basilisks and fire-snorting dragons with rainbow scales.

Cove, and you will be able to see the rites, the writers and writeresses, down even to the Iron Man with the basilisk eyes, vulgarly known as the King of the Sacerdotal Lizards.