Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PYTH'O-NESS
PYTH'O-NESS, n. [from L. Pytho, Gr. πυθων, a dragon or serpent.]
A sort of witch; also, the female or priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi, in Greece. – Mitford.
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