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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.

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.

Any marine snake. See Sea snake.

A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

A large South American serpent (Boa aboma).

A serpent. [Obs.] "The eddre seide to the woman." Wyclif. Gen. iii. 4. )

A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.

ia; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.

he margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.