Seraphs

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns,
           As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. --Pope.
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     {Seraph moth} (Zool.), 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.
        [1913 Webster] Seraphic