Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or resembling a snake; snake-like: as, “the anguine or snake-like reptiles,” Owen, Comp. Anat.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or related to or resembling a snake
Etymologies
- From Latin anguinus, from anguis ‘snake’. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“There are also: serpentine, colubrine (if it's a cobra-like snake, can't apply to a constricter, say, or a sidewinder ...), anguine.”
“J anguine ae patriae oppugna - XX, 4. uictoriae licentiam”
“Ilium iam uelim conuenire, qui initiari nos dicit aut credit de caede infantis et/anguine, Aur.”
“Non his juvenilis orta parentlbus Infccit a qiwr, f anguine GallicOr.”
“Nec fuit indignum fuperis, bis {anguine noftro Emathiam et latos Haemi pinguefcere campos Scilicet!”
Internet Archive: P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield
“Nor doubted long j for now her eyes beheld A dying perfoB fpurn the (anguine field* 105”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anguine’.
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Rare Words - A
Not just rare words, but thousands of RARE WORDS WITH DEFINITIONS.
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http://phrontistery.i...aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abapical, abarticular, abasement, abasia, abask, abatis and 1214 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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phrontistery - a
from phrontistery.info
axilla, avalement, argil, argent, argand, arete, aretaics, areometer, areology, arenoid, arenaceous, arefy and 1214 more...
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Animal Descriptors
Do any of your friends eat like a pig? Sly like a fox? Fast as a cheetah? Maybe these words describe them better
erinaceous, alaudine, phocine, porcine, accipritine, acarine, alopecoid, anatine, anguine, anopheline, apian, arietine and 80 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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Animal-ine
feline, leonine, vulpine, canine, ranine, elephantine, serpentine, cervine, ovine, porcine, aquinine, asinine and 171 more...
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tez's Words
tain, curlicue, eidolon, exoteric, puissant, ragamuffin, insouciant, yarrow, taciturn, mundane, vomitorium, tenebre and 140 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
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Mono word Metaphors
hachure, allogamy, clathrate, kedge, sward, fatidic, wyvern, sulcate, claudication, fremitus, syndetic, banns and 68 more...
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Animals
ophidian, anguine, budgie, stud book, steer, bullock, blowfly, polecat, paddock, roan, mongrel, tripe
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jamiefair's list
brio, fungible, peregrination, perspicacity, terpsichorean, mellifluous, anfractuous, crepuscular, effluvium, obfuscate, pusillanimous, deracinate and 34 more...
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Starters
Scurrilous, Contumacious, obloquy, obsequious, Sprack, sententious, propitious, versant, anodyne, lacuna, oblesque, celestine and 45 more...
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herotuesday's Words
butyraceous, thrasonical, turgid, ululate, irenic, punctilio, discombobulate, ecdysiast, formicate, favonian, agnate, erubescence and 614 more...
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Oh yeah...
Words that I'd forgotten it existed, but should reincorporate in my lexicon 'cause awesome.
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