noun. A snake.

noun. In the Bible, the creature that tempted Eve, identified in Christian tradition with Satan.

noun. A subtle, sly, or treacherous person.

noun. A firework that writhes while burning.

noun. A deep-voiced wind instrument of serpentine shape, used principally from the 1600s to the 1800s, about 2.5 meters (8 feet) in length and made of brass or wood.

noun. Serpens.

To wind along like a snake, as a river; take or have a serpentine course; meander.

To entwine; girdle as with the coils of a serpent.

Crawling on the belly, as a snake, or reptant, as an ophidian; of or pertaining to the Serpentia: correlated with salient and gradient.

Having the form or nature of a serpent; of a kind similar to that which a serpent has or might have.

Serpentine; winding; tortuous.

noun. A scaly creature that crawls on the belly; a limbless reptile; properly, a snake; any member of the order Ophidia (which see for technical characters).

noun. [capitalized] In astronomy, a constellation in the northern hemisphere. See Ophiuchus.

noun. A musical instrument, properly of the trumpet family, having a cupped mouthpiece, a conical wooden tube bent to and fro several times and usually covered with leather, and nine fingerholes very irregularly disposed.

noun. In organ-building, a reed-stop similar to the trombone.

noun. Figuratively, a person who in looks or ways suggests a serpent; a wily, treacherous person; rarely, a fatally fascinating person.

noun. A kind of firework which burns with a zigzag, serpentine motion or light.

noun. In firearms, same as serpentin.

transitive verb. To wind; to encircle.

intransitive verb. To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander.

noun. Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under ophidia.

noun. Fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.

noun. A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.

noun. The constellation Serpens.

noun. A bass wind instrument, of a loud and coarse tone, formerly much used in military bands, and sometimes introduced into the orchestra; -- so called from its form.

noun. mercuric sulphocyanate, a combustible white substance which in burning gives off a poisonous vapor and leaves a peculiar brown voluminous residue which is expelled in a serpentine from. It is employed as a scientific toy.

noun. the long, slender, serpentine fruit of the cucurbitaceous plant Trichosanthes colubrina; also, the plant itself.

noun. any one of several species of raptorial birds of the genera Circaëtus and Spilornis, which prey on serpents. They inhabit Africa, Southern Europe, and India. The European serpent eagle is Circaëtus Gallicus.

noun. An Asiatic antelope; the markhoor.

noun. a fish (Cepola rubescens) with a long, thin, compressed body, and a band of red running lengthwise.

noun. an ophiuran; a brittle star.

noun. the fossil tooth of a shark; -- so called from its resemblance to a tongue with its root.

noun. a West Indian climbing plant (Aristolochia odoratissima).

noun. any species of African serpents belonging to the family Dendrophidæ.

noun. A snake.

noun. An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).

verb. To wind; to encircle.

noun. limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

noun. an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake

noun. a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited

"As Eve gave her confidence to the serpent, she lost confidence in God, and went on to believe that when _God_ had said, "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die," and the _serpent_ said, "Ye shall not surely die," it was the serpent that spoke the truth."

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