Word Meanings - SERPENTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.

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• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• SERPENTARIUS
  A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus.
• WIND-RODE
  Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• WINDTIGHT
  So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• SERPENTINOUS
  Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• WINDLACE
  See SCOTT
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• WINDBORE
  The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted.
• SERPENTINELY
  In a serpentine manner.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
  The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of
• SERPENTARIA
  The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot
• WIND-SUCKER
  The kestrel. B. Jonson. (more info) 1. A horse given to wind-sucking Law.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• WHIRLWIND
  1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.