Of or pertaining to a serpent. [Obs.]
A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance. -- O*phi"ic, a.
A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.
98,828 entries. Headwords are matched first, then definition text.