Ser"aph (?), n.;
pl. E. Seraphs (#), Heb.
Seraphim (#). [Heb.
serāphim, 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 (Zoöl.),
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.
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