Serpentine has been largely produced by the alteration of other minerals, especially of chrysolite.

2. (Ordnance) A kind of ancient cannon.

Serpentine
(Ser"pen*tine), v. i. To serpentize. [R.] Lyttleton.

Serpentinely
(Ser"pen*tine*ly), adv. In a serpentine manner.

Serpentinian
(Ser`pen*tin"i*an) n. (Eccl.) See 2d Ophite.

Serpentinize
(Ser"pen*tin*ize) v. t. (Min.) To convert (a magnesian silicate) into serpentine.Ser`pen*tin`i*za"tion n.

Serpentinous
(Ser"pen*ti`nous) a. Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.

Serpentize
(Ser"pent*ize) v. i. To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander; to wind; to serpentine. [R.]

The river runs before the door, and serpentizes more than you can conceive.
Walpole.

Serpentry
(Ser"pent*ry) n.

1. A winding like a serpent's.

2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.

Serpent-tongued
(Ser"pent-tongued`) a. (Zoöl.) Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.

Serpet
(Ser"pet) n. [L. sirpus, scirpus, a rush, bulrush.] A basket. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

Serpette
(||Ser*pette") n. [F.] A pruning knife with a curved blade. Knight.

Serpiginous
(Ser*pig"i*nous) a. [Cf. F. serpigineux.] (Med.) Creeping; — said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.

Serpigo
(||Ser*pi"go) n. [LL., fr. L. serpere to creep.] (Med.) A dry, scaly eruption on the skin; especially, a ringworm.

Serpolet
(Ser"po*let) n. [F.] (Bot.) Wild thyme.

Serpula
(||Ser"pu*la) n.; pl. Serpulæ E. Serpulas [L., a little snake. See Serpent.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidæ. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.

Serpulian
(Ser*pu"li*an Ser*pu"li*dan) n. (Zoöl.) A serpula.

Serpulite
(Ser"pu*lite) n. A fossil serpula shell.

Serr
(Serr) v. t. [F. serrer. See Serry.] To crowd, press, or drive together. [Obs.] Bacon.

Serranoid
(Ser*ra"noid) n. [NL. Serranus, a typical genus (fr. L. serra a saw) + - oid.] (Zoöl.) Any fish of the family Serranidæ, which includes the striped bass, the black sea bass, and many other food fishes.a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Serranidæ.


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