Crossword-Solution: SERPENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Serpent | n. | Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia. |
| Serpent | n. | Fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person. |
| Serpent | n. | A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground. |
| Serpent | n. | The constellation Serpens. |
| Serpent | 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. |
| Serpent | v. i. | To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander. |
| Serpent | v. t. | To wind; to encircle. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SERPENT | anagram | PRESENT, REPENTS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with SERPENT (5)
Mitche Manito the Mighty, He the dreadful Spirit of Evil, As a serpent was depicted, As Kenabeek, the great serpent.
Before the Gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seem’d Woman to the waste, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fould Voluminous and vast, a Serpent arm’d With mortal sting: about her middle round A cry of Hell Hounds never ceasing bark’d With wide _Cerberean_ mouths full loud, and rung A hideous Peal: yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturb’d thir noyse, into her woomb, And kennel there, yet there still bark’d and howl’d Within unseen.
The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a smile to the Heifer: “For this you were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed.” The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of Justice A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds.
Before Oak had laid his hands upon his tools again out leapt the fifth flash, with the spring of a serpent and the shout of a fiend.
The Man and the Serpent A Countryman’s son by accident trod upon a Serpent’s tail, which turned and bit him so that he died.
Quotes with SERPENT (3)
Adam was but human — this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibers that absorb the sun, consuming and digesting. Under the thatched arbor of a restaurant on a river-bank, where Olivia had waited for me, our teeth began to move slowly, with equal rhythm, and our eyes stared into each other's with the intensity of serpents' — serpents concentrated in the ecstasy of swallowing each other in turn, as we were aware, in our turn, of being swallowed by the…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 98 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).