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e 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.

lly of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.

A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.

A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.

A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. [Written also crease and kris.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. Julian Hawthorne.

A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).

oöl.), the greenfinch. -- Green looper (Zoöl.), the cankerworm. -- Green marble (Min.), serpentine. -- Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment. See Greengill. -- Green monkey (Zoöl.) a West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly tamed, and trained to perform tricks. I…

rd snake (Zoöl.), the garter snake (Eutænia sirtalis). -- Lizard stone (Min.), a kind of serpentine from near Lizard Point, Cornwall, England, -- used for ornamental purposes.

y veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.

A thin, laminated variety of serpentine, usually of a pale green color.

neral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization. -- Met`a*so*mat"ic, a.

dot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine.

potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica.

A fibrous variety of serpentine.

A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.

A kind of openwork edging made of serpentine braid.

te of magnesia and aluminia. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock.

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

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