serpentine

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Green serpentine is the most usual material (C.W. King, in Di Cesnola's _Cyprus_, p. 387).] [Footnote 798: King, in Di Cesnola's _Cyprus_, p. 388.] [Footnote 799: Pl.xxxvi. a.] [Footnote 7100: Di Cesnola, _Cyprus_, p. 277.] [Footnote 7101: See De Vogüé's _Mélanges d'Archéologie Orientale_, pl.

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  1. adjective Of or resembling a serpent, as in form or movement; sinuous.
  2. adjective Subtly sly and tempting.
  3. noun Any of a group of greenish, brownish, or spotted minerals, Mg3Si2O5(OH)4, used as a source of magnesium and asbestos, and in architecture as a decorative stone.

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  1. Middle English, from Old French serpentin, from Late Latin serpentīnus, from Latin serpēns, serpent-, serpent; see serpent.

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  1. I. a. from Middle English serpentyne, from Old French serpentin, French serpentin = Spanish Portuguese Italian serpentino, of a serpent, from Late Latin serpentinus, of a serpent, from Latin serpen (t -) s, a serpent: see serpent. II. n. from Middle English serpentin, a cannon, from Old French serpentin, masculine, the cock of a harquebus, part of an alembic, serpentine, feminine, a kind of alembic, a kind of cannon, French serpentine, serpentine (stone), grass-plantain, = Italian serpentina, feminine, a kind of alembic; Middle Latin serpentina, feminine, a kind of cannon, serpentine (stone); from the adjective
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