'Serpentine' definitions:
Definition of 'serpentine'
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Definition of 'Serpentine'
From: GCIDE
- Serpentine \Ser"pen*tine\, v. i. To serpentize. [R.] --Lyttleton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Serpentine'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Thy shape Like his, and color serpentine. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Serpentine'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Serpentine has been largely produced by the alteration of other minerals, especially of chrysolite. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Ordnance) A kind of ancient cannon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'serpentine'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- acute,
- affluent,
- ambagious,
- amphibian,
- anfractuous,
- anguiform,
- anguine,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- bad,
- batrachian,
- bent,
- billowing,
- billowy,
- Byzantine,
- 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,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- Mephistophelian,
- 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