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A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with. U. S. Disp.

A sea fish. [R.] Spenser.

Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.

A marine food fish of the genus Scorpæna, as the European hogfish (S. scrofa), and the California species (S. guttata).

One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.

Any marine snake. See Sea snake.

A pennatula.

Dependent on one's self; self-depending; self-reliant.

Depending on one's self.

Suspended by one's self or by itself; balanced. Southey.

An imperfect or diminished fifth. Busby.

Half or partially penniform; as, a semipenniform muscle.

A constellation represented as a serpent held by Serpentarius.

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

Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.

The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot (Aristolochia Serpentaria).

A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus.

Having the form of a serpent.

Bred of a serpent.

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.