basilisk an imaginary creature (called also cockatrice), supposed to kill by its very look:
“sighted like the basilisk,”
THE WINTER'S TALE, i. 2. 388
;
“come, basilisk, And kill the innocent gazer with thy sight,”
2 HENRY VI., iii. 2. 52
;
“I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk,”
3 HENRY VI., iii. 3. 187
;
“It is a basilisk unto mine eye,”
CYMBELINE, ii. 4. 107
;
“Their chiefest prospect murdering basilisks!”
2 HENRY VI., iii. 2. 324
;
“Would they were basilisks, to strike thee dead!”
RICHARD III., i. 2. 150.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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