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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.

In a serpentine manner.

See 2d Ophite.

To convert (a magnesian silicate) into serpentine. -- Ser`pen*tin`i*za"tion, n.

Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.

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

A winding like a serpent's.

Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force. Now thou seest me Spent, overpowered, despairing of success. Addison. Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground. Dryden.

Noisy; loud. [R.] Shenstone.

Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.

Terpenylic.

Having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid. [Obs.] Evelyn.

A semifluid or fluid oleoresin, primarily the exudation of the terebinth, or turpentine, tree (Pistacia Terebinthus), a native of the Mediterranean region. It is also obtained from many coniferous trees, especially species of pine, larch, and fir.

North Carolina; -- a nickname alluding to its extensive production of turpentine.

Impenitence. [R.]