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Cockatrice :: Cockatrice (n.) A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified.

Rickrack :: Rickrack (n.) A kind of openwork edging made of serpentine braid.

Amphisbaena :: Amphisbaena (n.) A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way..

Picrolite :: Picrolite (n.) A fibrous variety of serpentine.

Spiry :: Spiry (a.) Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine.

Serpent :: Serpent (n.) A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.

Engouled :: Engouled (a.) Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled..

Creese :: Creese (n.) A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade..

Serpentiform :: Serpentiform (a.) Having the form of a serpent.

Sea Serpent :: Sea serpent () Any marine snake. See Sea snake.

Dragon :: Dragon (n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent..

Adjutant :: Adjutant (n.) A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits..

Viperoides :: Viperoides (n. pl.) A division of serpents which includes the true vipers of the Old World and the rattlesnakes and moccasin snakes of America; -- called also Viperina.

Cockatrice :: Cockatrice (n.) A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent..

Peridotite :: Peridotite (n.) An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine..

Sting :: Sting (v. t.) Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion..

Echidna :: Echidna (n.) A monster, half maid and half serpent..

Serpent-tongued :: Serpent-tongued (a.) Having a forked tongue, like a serpent..

Serpentinize :: Serpentinize (v. t.) To convert (a magnesian silicate) into serpentine.

Mosasauria :: Mosasauria (n. pl.) An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria..

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