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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ser·aph n.; pl. E. Seraphs Heb. Seraphim   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.
 As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns,
 As the rapt seraph that adores and burns.   --Pope.
 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.