(n.) Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia.
(n.) Fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
(n.) A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.
(n.) The constellation Serpens.
(n.) 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.
(v. i.) To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander.
(v. t.) To wind; to encircle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dozens of wet-suited arms arc rhythmically above the water like small sea serpents, churning the lake as they go.
(2) ‘We were simple as doves, wise as serpents’: Portugal toast Euro 2016 win Read more Has any player been through as many contrasting emotions in the space of a major final?
(3) In the beginning, then, this mythology goes, the biologist was in the middle of the ocean, "surrounded by venomous sea serpents", preparing to meet his genome.
(4) What is striking is the success of independent publishers with four represented on the list – Canongate, Serpent's tail, Atlantic and Granta.
(5) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.
(6) Resting metabolic rates (RMR) of 34 species from 18 genera of boas and pythons (Serpentes: Boidae), with body masses ranging from 2 to 67,800 g, were determined as oxygen consumption (VO2) and carbon dioxide production (VCO2) at three ambient temperatures (Ta).
(7) The way a bull's penis looks – like a red serpent... it's incredibly hard to watch.
(8) The moral emblem at the heart of Van Hoytl the Younger's painting is of course the oldest of all Judaeo-Christian symbolic objects: the apple with which the serpent tempted Eve.
(9) A subtler example is the mythological status snakes - the serpent of Eden, Ouroboros in Greek myth - hold in most cultures.
(10) Its soul became Serpent, long enough to be powerful as Cosmic soul.
(11) Most importantly, we must enact systemic changes that will uncoil the serpent of corruption that is suffocating our development.
(12) In his latest book, The Serpent's Promise , Jones examines how nurture and nature are inseparably intertwined.
(13) No visit from Dr Freud is needed to recognise that the devouring snake lurking deep in the body of the hysteric in "The Bosom Serpent" is not just the "egotism" of the longer title of the story, but guilt for auto-erotic naughtiness.
(14) Lionel Shriver is the author of We Need to Talk about Kevin (Serpent's Tail) Margaret Drabble Photograph: Murdo Macleod The Bell Jar is a novel of reckless vitality, and although it's about death, trauma, suicide and madness, it's as exhilarating as its narrator's first mad dash down the ski slope when she manages triumphantly to break her leg in two places.
(15) Recognition of the fact that the amplification mechanisms of the immune system are already fully activated when the clinical features of a serpent ulcer appear and that the destructive phase only represents an unwanted side-effect of the host defense mechanisms towards its own structures has resulted in the application of corticosteroids with simultaneous antibiotic medication and early tectonic perforating keratoplasty.
(16) That river is important for dreaming because it travels through the heart of the country, the waterways relate to the rainbow serpent and our totems in the trees,” Burragubba said.
(17) Following the advice of another human regarded as a living god , he has been as cunning as a serpent and as peaceful as a dove.
(18) Alas, the serpent’s egg was hatching inside the foundations of the emergent union.
(19) The present study, using classical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy, has shown the dental hard tissues of the fangs of Viperidae (poisonous serpents with terrestrial or semi-aquatic habits) to be constituted of: a calcified outer layer, 0.4 microns thick, made of very small needle-like crystals, randomly distributed.
(20) Votive tablets found during the excavation of shrines of the Graeco-Roman god of medicine (Asklepios or Aesculapius) associate the healing of superficial lesions with contact with the oral cavity of non-poisonous serpents.
Wind
Definition:
(v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
(v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
(v. t.) To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
(v. t.) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
(v. t.) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
(v. t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
(v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.
(v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.
(v. i.) To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.
(n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
(n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
(n.) Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
(n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
(n.) Power of respiration; breath.
(n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
(n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
(n.) A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.
(n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
(n.) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
(n.) The dotterel.
(v. t.) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
(v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
(v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
(v. t.) To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(2) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(3) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(4) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
(5) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(6) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(7) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
(8) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(9) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(10) The workforce has changed dramatically since 1900 – just 29,000 Americans today work in fishing and the number of job titles tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown to almost 600 – everything from “animal trainers” to “wind turbine service technicians” (and there are even more sub categories).
(11) At Weledeh Catholic School in Yellowknife, for example, it’s used to determine when to hold playtime indoors (wind chill below -30C, since you asked).
(12) A rather pessimistic wind is blowing over cancer chemotherapy, while a not very objective enthusiasm for second generation immunotherapy is raising its head.
(13) The scheme is available to those who have one or more of the following technologies: solar PV panels (roof-mounted or stand alone), wind turbines (building mounted or free standing), hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion (generating electricity from food waste), and micro combined heat and power (through the use of new types of boilers , for example).
(14) The railway between Norwich and Ely was blocked when strong winds caused power lines to fall across the tracks.
(15) Eager to show I was a good student, the next time we had sex, I noticed that one of my hands was, indeed, lying idle – and started to pat him on the back, absently, as if trying to wind a baby.
(16) One in four British homes could be fitted with solar heating equipment and 3,500 wind turbines could be erected across Britain within 12 years as part of a green energy revolution to be proposed by the government next week.
(17) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(18) They’re from every other source in the environment – from the wind, from transport,” he said.
(19) Nineteen members of the West Midlands Police Force, who qualified as PTSD sufferers, were offered the 're-wind' technique.
(20) Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is likely to face: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison."