SERPENT
\sˈɜːpənt], \sˈɜːpənt], \s_ˈɜː_p_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of SERPENT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
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A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.
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The constellation Serpens.
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To wind; to encircle.
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A bass wind instrument, of a loud and coarse tone, formerly much used in military bands, and sometimes introduced into the orchestra; - so called from its form.
By Oddity Software
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Fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
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A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.
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The constellation Serpens.
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To wind; to encircle.
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A bass wind instrument, of a loud and coarse tone, formerly much used in military bands, and sometimes introduced into the orchestra; - so called from its form.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A reptile without feet which moves by means of its ribs and scales: a person subtle or malicious: one of the constellations: (music) a bass wind-instrument, so called from its form.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A snake. SNAKE BROTH was, at one time, recommended as a restorative. Many serpents are venomous: and the bites of some fatal. See Poisons, table of.
By Robley Dunglison
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n. [Latin , Greek] A snake ; an ophidian reptile without feet, with an extremely elongated body, and moving by means of the folds it forms when in contact with the ground;-figuratively, a subtle or malicious persona species of firework having a serpentine motion a constellation in the Northern hemisphere containing sixty-four stars;-a wind instrument-so called from its form.
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