Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Seraph"
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) 1.7 (wn)
seraph
n : an angel of the first order; usually portrayed as the winged
head of a child
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