in general, denotes any thing that resembles a serpent. Hence the worm or pipe of a still, twisted in a spiral manner, is termed a serpentine worm.

Serpentine Verses are such as begin and end with the same word; as,

Ambo florentes statibus, Arcades ambo.

in the Manège. A horse is said to have a serpentine tongue, if it is always frisking and moving, and sometimes passing over the bit, instead of keeping in the void space called the liberty of the tongue.