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Ophidian   Listen
noun
Ophidian  n.  (Zool.) One of the Ophidia; a snake or serpent.






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"Ophidian" Quotes from Famous Books



... his eye, As by a serpent's charm it fixed her own; The hate and anger of a soul intense Were all compressed in that remorseless glance, The coldly cruel meaning of whose sense Smote down the shield of her false innocence. She strove to wrest her eye from his in vain, Held by that gaze ophidian like a bird, As in a trance she neither breathed nor stirred. And gazing thus an icy little lance, Smaller than quill from wing of humming-bird, Shot from his eyes, and a keen stinging pain Sped through the open windows of her brain. ...
— Indian Legends of Minnesota • Various

... from the trees was there, and the planter of the balcony watering henbane and hellebore with boiling aquafortis; likewise the demon-waiter, with his leaden salver and poisoned tankard, wearing an ophidian smile on his features and a fresh sprig of hemlock ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume V, Number 29, March, 1860 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various



Words linked to "Ophidian" :   sea snake, diapsid reptile, Serpentes, diapsid, worm snake, snake, Ophidia, serpent, elapid, suborder Serpentes, elapid snake



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