Both Uses of
serpent
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- and a huge cylindrical drum, covered with the skins of great serpents, like the one that Bernal Diaz saw when he went with Cortes into the Mexican temple, and of whose doleful sound he has left us so vivid a description.†
Chpt 9serpents = snakes
- In Alphonso's "Clericalis Disciplina" a serpent was mentioned with eyes of real jacinth, and in the romantic history of Alexander he was said to have found snakes in the vale of Jordan "with collars of real emeralds growing on their backs."†
Chpt 9 *serpent = snake
Definitions:
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(1)
(serpent) a snake
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
For less common senses of "serpent", see a comprehensive dictionary.