serpent
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1. serpent - Noun
2. serpent - Verb
3. Serpent - Proper noun
Meaning
Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia.
Fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.
The constellation Serpens.
A bass wind instrument, of a loud and coarse tone, formerly much used in military bands, and sometimes introduced into the orchestra; -- so called from its form.
To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander.
To wind; to encircle.
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7. Suparshwanatha Basadi: Seven headed serpent is carved over the head of the Suparshvanatha image.
According to literary historian Sacvan Bercovitch: Bercovitch 1972, p. 106 Few puritans more loudly decried the bosom serpent of egotism than did Cotton Mather; none more clearly exemplified it.
Act 1 Scene 1: A rough, rocky landscape Tamino, a handsome prince lost in a distant land, is pursued by a serpent and asks the gods to save him (aria: " Zu Hilfe!
According to some sources, Ophion ("serpent", a.k.a. Ophioneus), ruled the world with Eurynome before the two of them were cast down by Cronus and Rhea.
Above the tail of the serpent is the now-obsolete constellation Taurus Poniatovii while below it is Scutum.
AD 337) showing a depiction of his labarum spearing a serpent.