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Animal in Genesis
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serpent
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Word definitions for serpent in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "limbless reptile," also the tempter in Gen. iii:1-5, from Old French serpent , sarpent "snake, serpent" (12c.), from Latin serpentem (nominative serpens ) "snake; creeping thing," also the name of a constellation, from present participle of serpere ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Serpent \Ser"pent\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Serpented ; p. pr. & vb. n. Serpenting .] To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander. [R.] ``The serpenting of the Thames.'' --Evelyn.
Usage examples of serpent.
With officers, sergeants, and corporals amplifying the simple command, the 47th North Carolina became a long gray serpent that wound its way out of the encampment, as if shedding a confining winter skin, and tramped north up the road toward Orange Court House.
As an arrowy serpent, pursuing the form Of an elephant, bursts through the brakes of the waste.
A tiny little mark with the faintest suggestion of a flair at the tail of it, a bit of artistry to it, a mark like a serpent about to strike.
As the Serpent extends over both signs, Libra and Scorpio, it has been the gate through which souls descend, during the whole time that those two signs in succession marked the Autumnal Equinox.
We are at once reminded of the Sun at the new year represented by a child sitting on a lotus, and of the relations of the Sun of Spring with the Autumnal Serpent, pursued by and pursuing him, and in conjunction with him.
Scorpion or Serpent stings the Bull and Orion at Autumnal Equinox, 466-l.
Virgo and Bootes at the Autumnal Equinox introduce the serpent, 455-l.
And they teach the serpents there to entwine themselves up on long sticks out of the ground and of the scales of these serpents they brew out a brewage like to mead.
Midgard Serpent, and if we can ever reach back far enough we can house a Brontosaur and a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Only empty darkness met his eyes, into which the serpent had dragged a mangled, tattered object that only faintly resembled a human body.
Like two dark serpents tangled in the dust, Which on the paths of men their mingling poison thrust.
In Persia, at a later day, it was the serpent, which, personified as Ahriman, was the Evil Principle of the religion of Zoroaster.
The Caduceus, borne by Hermes or Mercury, and also by Cybele, Minerva, Anubis, Hercules Ogmius the God of the Celts, and the personified Constellation Virgo, was a winged wand, entwined by two serpents.
Typhon, his hands and feet horrid with serpents, and whose habitat in the Egyptian planisphere was under Scorpio, confined him in a chest and flung him into the Nile, under the 17th degree of Scorpio.
Zanthodon refer to the great plesiosaurus of the remote Jurassic, which some authorities consider to be the origin of the legend of the sea serpent.