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seraph |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Seraph \Ser"aph\, n.; pl E. {Seraphs}, Heb. {Seraphim}. [Heb. ser[=a]phim, pl.] One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels. --Isa. vi 2. As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. --Pope. {Seraph moth} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of geometrid moths of the genus {Lobophora}, having the hind wings deeply bilobed, so that they seem to have six wings. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: seraph n : an angel of the first order usually portrayed as the winged head of a child
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