Word Meanings - SERPENT-TONGUED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.

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• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• SERPENTARIUS
  A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• SERPENTINOUS
  Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.
• FORK
  1. An instrument consisting consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything. 2.
• SERPENTINELY
  In a serpentine manner.
• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• FORKTAIL
  One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking. A salmon in its fourth year's growth.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• FORKLESS
  Having no fork.
• FORKBEARD
  A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard.
• SERPENTARIA
  The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• SERPENTIFORM
  Having the form of a serpent.
• TONGUESTER
  One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• DUNGFORK
  A fork for tossing dung.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• ADDER'S-TONGUE
  A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
• LONG-TONGUE
  The wryneck.