serpentine
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Serpentine \Ser"pen*tine\, a. [L. serpentinus: cf. F.
serpentin.]
Resembling a serpent; having the shape or qualities of a
serpent; subtle; winding or turning one way and the other,
like a moving serpent; anfractuous; meandering; sinuous;
zigzag; as, serpentine braid.
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Thy shape
Like his, and color serpentine. --Milton.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Serpentine \Ser"pen*tine\, n. [Cf. (for sense 1) F. serpentine,
(for sense 2) serpentin.]
1. (Min.) A mineral or rock consisting chiefly of the hydrous
silicate of magnesia. It is usually of an obscure green
color, often with a spotted or mottled appearance
resembling a serpent's skin. Precious, or noble,
serpentine is translucent and of a rich oil-green color.
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Note: Serpentine has been largely produced by the alteration
of other minerals, especially of chrysolite.
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2. (Ordnance) A kind of ancient cannon.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
223 Moby Thesaurus words for "serpentine":
Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, Mephistophelian, aberrant,
aberrative, acute, affluent, ambagious, amphibian, anfractuous,
anguiform, anguine, arch, artful, astute, bad, batrachian, bent,
billowing, billowy, cagey, canny, circuitous, circumlocutory,
clever, colubriform, complex, complicated, confluent, conniving,
convoluted, convolutional, coursing, crafty, crawling, creeping,
crocodilian, crooked, cunning, curvaceous, curvate, curvated,
curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear,
curving, curvy, cute, deceitful, decurrent, deep, deep-laid,
defluent, demoniac, demonic, departing, designing, desultory,
deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devilish, devious,
diabolic, diabolical, diffluent, digressive, diplomatic,
discursive, eellike, errant, erratic, evil, excursive, feline,
flexuose, flexuous, flowing, fluent, fluxional, fluxive, foxy,
froggy, geosynclinal, guileful, gulfy, gushing, incurvate,
incurvated, incurved, incurving, indented, indirect, ingenious,
insidious, inventive, involute, involuted, involutional, knowing,
labyrinthine, lizardlike, lumbriciform, mazy, meandering,
meandrous, notched, ophidian, out-of-the-way, pawky, planetary,
plotting, politic, pouring, profluent, racing, rambling, ready,
recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, repent, reptant,
reptile, reptilelike, reptilian, reptiliform, reptiloid,
resourceful, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, roving, ruffled,
running, rushing, satanic, saurian, saw-toothed, sawtooth,
scheming, scored, serpentiform, serpentile, serpentlike,
serpentoid, serrate, serrated, serried, sharp, shifting, shifty,
shrewd, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, slick, slippery, slithering,
sluggish, sly, smooth, snake-shaped, snakelike, snaking, snaky,
sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, stray, streaming,
subtile, subtle, supple, surging, surgy, swerving, tactical, tidal,
toadish, toothed, torsional, tortile, tortuous, trickish, tricksy,
tricky, turning, twisting, twisty, undirected, undulant,
unhallowed, vagrant, veering, vermicular, vermiculate, vermiform,
viperiform, viperish, viperlike, viperoid, viperous, vipery,
vortical, vulpine, wandering, wary, wavy, whorled, wily, winding,
wormlike, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag
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