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TWISTY |
Serpentine |
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SERPENTINELY |
In a serpentine manner. |
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VERD ANTIQUE |
A mottled-green serpentine marble. |
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PICROLITE |
A fibrous variety of serpentine. |
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SPIRY |
Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine. |
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SERPENTINIZE |
To convert (a magnesian silicate) into serpentine. |
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RICKRACK |
A kind of openwork edging made of serpentine braid. |
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SERPENTINOUS |
Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock
serpentinous in character. |
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SINUOUS |
Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form;
winding; crooked. |
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MARMOLITE |
A thin, laminated variety of serpentine, usually of a
pale green color. |
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SNAKY |
Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake;
serpentine; winding. |
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CREESE |
A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having
a serpentine blade. |
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SERPENT |
A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it
passess through the air or along the ground. |
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CEROLITE |
A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine,
occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color. |
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RETINALITE |
A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow
or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster. |
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BOWENITE |
A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode
Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade. |
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SERPENTIZE |
To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one
direction and then in the opposite; to meander; to wind; to serpentine. |
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SAPONITE |
A hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina. It occurs in
soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities
in trap rock. |
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PERIDOTITE |
An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of
chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite,
chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine. |
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SERPENTINE |
...es of
a serpent; subtle; winding or turning one way and the other, like a
moving serpent; anfractuous; meandering; sinuous; zigzag; as,
serpe... |
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METASOMATISM |
...nvolving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to
serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a
recrystal... |
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ASBESTOS |
...The name is also given to a similar variety
of serpentine. ... |
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PHLOGOPITE |
...istic of
crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica. ... |
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GABBRO |
A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of
serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used
for a coarsely crys... |
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MARBLE |
...ven to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd
antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc. ... |