basilisk a huge piece of ordnance, carrying a
ball of very great weight:
“Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin,”
1 HENRY IV., ii. 3. 50
;
“The fatal balls of murdering basilisks,”
HENRY V., v. 2. 17
; but in the second of these passages there is a double allusion,—to pieces of
ordnance, and to the fabulous creatures named basilisks.
See the preceding article.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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