Word Meanings - SERPENTIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander; to wind; to serpentine. The river runs before the door, and serpentizes more than you can conceive. Walpole.

Related words: (words related to SERPENTIZE)

• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• SERPENTARIUS
  A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus.
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• SERPENTINOUS
  Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• SERPENTINELY
  In a serpentine manner.
• OPPOSITE
  1. One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist. The opposites of this day's strife. Shak. 2. That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite. The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other. Landor.
• SERPENTARIA
  The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot
• RIVER
  One who rives or splits.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• RIVERLING
  A rivulet. Sylvester.
• CONCEIVER
  One who conceives.
• SERPENTIFORM
  Having the form of a serpent.
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• SERPENTINE
  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
• RIVERY
  Having rivers; as, a rivery country. Drayton.
• RIVERET
  A rivulet. Drayton.
• SERPENT
  Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia. Note: The serpents are mostly long and slender, and move partly by bending the body into undulations or folds and pressing them against objects, and
• RIVERSIDE
  The side or bank of a river.
• MEANDER
  Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• DRIVER
  A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
• SCREW-DRIVER
  A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
• CONTRIVER
  One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
• HEADFIRST; HEADFOREMOST
  With the head foremost.