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 a serpent'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, or constricting.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • _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

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  • 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

  • Neat.

    August 11, 2015

  • Tank hughes very much, bilby.

    August 12, 2015