Word Meanings - SERPENTIFORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having the form of a serpent.
Related words: (words related to SERPENTIFORM)
- 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