Definition of "basilisks" [basilisks]

• Plural form of basilisk. (noun)

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• "Forty leagues farther is the Isle of Camaram, whose inhabitants are annoyed with little serpents, which they call basilisks, which, though very poisonous and deadly, do not, as the ancients have told us, kill with their eyes, or if they have so fatal"
• "Rich as they are in basilisks and Triwizard Tournaments, her books advance, narratively, at an absolute crawl."
• "These had with them eleven thousand and two hundred cannons, double cannons, long pieces of artillery called basilisks, and smaller sized ones known by the name of spirols, besides the mortar-pieces and grenadoes."