serpentize

== English == === Alternative forms === serpentise === Etymology === From serpent +‎ -ize. === Verb === serpentize (third-person singular simple present serpentizes, present participle serpentizing, simple past and past participle serpentized) (intransitive) To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander. September 1, 1760, Horace Walpole, letter to George Montagu, Esq. The river runs before the door, and serpentizes more than you can conceive in the vale. === References === “serpentize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.