Word Meanings - SERPENTINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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. Thy shape Like his, and color serpentine.
Additional info about word: SERPENTINE
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. Thy shape Like his, and color serpentine. Milton.
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- WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - WIND-RODE
Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten. - WINDINGLY
In a winding manner. - WINDTIGHT
So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall. - ROUNDWORM
A nematoid worm. - WINDLACE
See SCOTT - WIND-SHAKEN
Shaken by the wind; specif. , - ROUNDISH
Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n. - ROUNDABOUTNESS
The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness. - WINDBORE
The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted. - SERPENTINELY
In a serpentine manner. - CIRCUITOUS
Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine. - ROUNDFISH
Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska. - ROUND-UP
The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in. - WIND-SUCKER
The kestrel. B. Jonson. (more info) 1. A horse given to wind-sucking Law. - ROUNDSMAN
A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen. - ROUNDHEADED
Having a round head or top. - WINDBOUND
prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound. - WINDINESS
1. The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season. 2. Fullness of wind; flatulence. 3. Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables. 4. Tumor; - ROUNDHEAD
A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Toone. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - BROKEN WIND
The heaves. - THICK WIND
A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - WHIRLWIND
1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots - ABOUT
On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)