Definitions for serpentine

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serpentine ser·pen·tine

Spelling: [sur-puh n-teen, -tahyn]

IPA: /ˈsɜr pənˌtin, -ˌtaɪn/

Serpentine is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 463 anagrams from letters in serpentine (eeeinnprst).

Definitions for serpentine

noun

1. a device on a harquebus lock for holding the match.
2. a cannon having any of various bore sizes, used from the 15th to the 17th century.
3. Skating. a school figure made by skating two figure eights that share one loop.
4. a common mineral, hydrous magnesium silicate, H 2 Mg 3 Si 2 O 2 , usually oily green and sometimes spotted, occurring in many varieties: used for architectural and decorative purposes.

adjective

1. of, characteristic of, or resembling a serpent, as in form or movement.
2. having a winding course, as a road; sinuous.
3. shrewd, wily, or cunning.

verb (used without object)

1. to make or follow a winding course:

Origin of serpentine

1350-1400; Middle English (adj.) Latin serpentīnus snakelike, equivalent to serpent- serpent + -īnus ine¹

Examples for serpentine

Shall we cross to the north, and see whether the serpentine is in its place?

In the park you will also find the serpentine, a lake in which people boat or swim (depending on the time of year).

If there were no fools to skate on the serpentine, there had been no Humane Society.

But he tells their story in a voyeuristic way, to make this one of the most troubling and serpentine novel of the year.

It's not just about the wild serpentine forms that Schiavone borrowed from Mannerist painters based further south.

Lynch nods indulgently as Brand launches into an epic, serpentine definition of the benefits of TM.

They had driven him home a dozen times from serpentine Mews, and knew all about him.

Most of the time, the three-hour, serpentine drive to Jalalabad is gorgeous and calm, though attacks can happen.

We should have been done for, had the cliff been serpentine marble.

Mary looked up from the serpentine braid she was crocheting.