Crossword clues for poisoner
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poisoner \Poi"son*er\, n.
One who poisons.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., agent noun from poison (v.). OED notes that in Australia and New Zealand it was used for "A cook, esp. for large numbers."
Wiktionary
n. A person who poisons something or someone.
WordNet
n. someone who kills with poison
Usage examples of "poisoner".
The beautiful poisoner, Marquise de Brinvilliers, must have suggested to Dumas his later portrait of Miladi, in the Three Musketeers, the mast celebrated of his woman characters.
For instance, if it were discovered that I had come here, I might be taken for the poisoner.
A lover of any consequence had to qualify first as a successful poisoner, knifer, or clubber.
Gertrude is a poisoner, those pies were meant for my friends Jane, Michael, and Maeve.
So then the lights go out on that side of the stage, and on the other side the lights go up, those same final words of Aaron the Moor sounding again through the theatre, electronic blessing, as a ballet of slabbers and ravishers and poisoners prances to a music of screams and groans.
MacDonell and Margaret Charpentier, pharmacists extraordinaire, who also have a very promising future as poisoners.
In some, she escaped back to the station with it, in some she just destroyed it in a fit of ignorance, in others she delivered Eden to the old poisoner in Offshoot, who held it to bargain with.
Campion as he stumbled up the unfamiliar staircase that Miss Evadne Palinode, even when considered as a possible poisoner, went in for a strange assortment of evening beverages.
Those old poisoners, the artists and thinkers, had sweetened the death-brew with their honeyed rhetoric, which would have been found out and rejected by every conscience with disgust, if it had not been for their falsehoods.
O poisoner of children, surely it would be better to cut the knot of reluctance and uncord the casket of explanation.
And all a Malkite poisoner does to get around tasters is dose them with an antidote beforehand.
Miss Melba Rooney, a four-timer poisoner of husbands, not all of them her own.
I just said, the poisoner has taken the precaution of keeping for herself a few drops of her deadliest potion.
So then the lights go out on that side of the stage, and on the other side the lights go up, those same final words of Aaron the Moor sounding again through the theatre, electronic blessing, as a ballet of slabbers and ravishers and poisoners prances to a music of screams and groans.
I have read the letter you wrote to Possano, in which I am styled a cheat, a spy, a coiner, and a poisoner.