Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A winding about, or turning this way and that, like the writhing of a serpent; serpentine motion or course; a meandering.
- noun A place infested by serpents.
- noun A number of serpents or serpentine beings collectively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A winding like a serpent's.
- noun A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
winding like aserpent 's - noun A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
- noun A type of behavior attributed to snakes.
- adjective Any act or motion of a serpent or serpent like creature, such as
slithering ,climbing ,eat ,drinking ,killing ,sleeping , orconstricting .
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Examples
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Beaded bubbles winking at the brim; Throbbing throats 'long, long melodious moan; Curious conscience burrowing like a mole; Emprison her soft hand and let her rave; Men slugs and human serpentry; Bade her steep her hair in weird syrops; Poor weak palsy-stricken churchyard thing; Shut her pure sorrow-drops with glad exclaim -- such lines were to him a constant and exhilarating excitement.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923
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I pushed through a thick and aromatic clump of myrtles, and peering between the narrow leaves, perceived the cold, bright face of a little marble god beneath willows; and, seated upon a starry bank near by, one whom by the serpentry of her hair and the shadow of her lips I knew to be Anthea.
Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914
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Then Envy, trembling with secret hatred, accompanied by his court of flatterers, backbiters, calumniators and all the human serpentry that lurk in the palaces of kings.
Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848
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_serpentry_, '(p. 41); the' _honey-feel_ of bliss, '(p. 45);' wives prepare _needments_, '(p. 13) -- and so forth.
Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney
qms commented on the word serpentry
When Adam and Eve frolicked nude
Then Eden abounded in food
But hid in a certain tree
In sinuous serpentry
There dangled the fruit of the lewd.
August 11, 2015
bilby commented on the word serpentry
Neat.
August 11, 2015
qms commented on the word serpentry
Tank hughes very much, bilby.
August 12, 2015