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Word Meanings - SERPENTIFORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the form of a serpent.

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  • SERPENT-TONGUED
    Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
  • SERPENTARIUS
    A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus.
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • SERPENTRY
    1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • SERPENTINOUS
    Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.
  • SERPENTINELY
    In a serpentine manner.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • SERPENTARIA
    The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • SERPENTIFORM
    Having the form of a serpent.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • SERPENT
    Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia. Note: The serpents are mostly long and slender, and move partly by bending the body into undulations or folds and pressing them against objects, and
  • HAVING
    Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
  • SERPENTINE
    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.
  • HAVIOR
    Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
  • SERPENTINIAN
    See OPHITE
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • DRAWSHAVE
    See KNIFE
  • MISBEHAVIOR
    Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
  • SHAVING
    1. The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor. 2. That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument. "Shaving

 

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