serpentine

serpentine
Synonyms and related words:
Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, Mephistophelian, aberrant, aberrative, acute, affluent, ambagious, amphibian, anfractuous, anguiform, anguine, arch, artful, astute, bad, batrachian, bent, billowing, billowy, 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, mazy, meandering, meandrous, 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

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  • serpentine — [ sɛrpɑ̃tin ] n. f. • XIIIe; de serpentin ♦ Minér. Roche métamorphique (silicates de magnésium) dont la masse vert sombre est traversée de petits filons fibreux. serpentine estragon [ ɛstragɔ̃ ] n. m. • 1601; estargon 1564; altér. de targon… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • serpentine — 1. (sèr pan ti n ) s. f. Figure de manége : les cavaliers marchant de file décrivent une ligne sinueuse analogue à la sinusoïde. serpentine 2. (sèr pan ti n ) s. f. Ancienne bouche à feu dont la volée était vissée sur la culasse.    Demi… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 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,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Serpentine — Sf schlangenförmiger Weg an Bergen erw. fach. (19. Jh.) Neoklassische Bildung. Neubildung zu l. serpentīnus Schlangen betreffend, wie Schlangen , zu l. serpēns ( entis) Schlange , dem substantivierten PPräs. von l. serpere kriechen, schleichen .… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • Serpentine — the Serpentine a lake in ↑Hyde Park in London …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • serpentine — Serpentine, Piece d artillerie. Serpentine à distiller l eau de vie …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • Serpentine — Ser pen*tine, v. i. To serpentize. [R.] Lyttleton. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Serpentine — Serpentine, die schlangenförmige Krümmung eines Flusses od. Kanals; daher: Serpentiren, in dieser Richtung laufen …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Serpentine — (franz.), »Schlangenlinie«, Weg in Schlangenlinie an Berghängen; im 16. u. 17. Jahrh. Name einer Art bis 40 Kaliber langer leichter Geschütze (Schlangen), auch des Hahnes mit Schlangenkopf an Handfeuerwaffen …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Serpentine — (Schlangenwindung), eine scharfe, mehr oder weniger eine halbe Umdrehung ausmachende Krümmung eines Wasserlaufes …   Lexikon der gesamten Technik

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