Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To wind; turn or bend, first in one direction and then in the opposite; meander.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare 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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- verb transitive To
turn orbend like aserpent , first in one direction and then in the opposite; tomeander .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The scene is a little changed for the worse: the lovely landscape is now one undistinguished waste of snow, only a little diversified by the great variety of ever-greens in the woods: the romantic winding path down the side of the hill to our farm, on which we used to amuse ourselves with seeing the beaux serpentize, is now a confused, frightful, rugged precipice, which one trembles at the idea of ascending.
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The scene is a little changed for the worse: the lovely landscape is now one undistinguished waste of snow, only a little diversified by the great variety of ever-greens in the woods: the romantic winding path down the side of the hill to our farm, on which we used to amuse ourselves with seeing the beaux serpentize, is now a confused, frightful, rugged precipice, which one trembles at the idea of ascending.
The History of Emily Montague Frances Brooke 1756
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