单词 | serpent-stone |
释义 | serpent-stonen. 1. = ammonite n.2 Now Obsolete or local. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > types of astroite1610 belemnite1646 mussel-stone1660 scallop-stone1668 trochite1676 conchite1677 ophiomorphite1677 pectinite1677 worm-stone1677 musculite1681 serpent-stone1681 sugar-plum1681 glossopetraa1684 ague shell1708 forket1708 mytilite1727 grit1748 phytolithus1761 fairy beads1767 fairy fingers1780 fairy arrow1794 gryphite1794 ram's horn1797 hysterolite1799 tubulite1799 thunder-pick1801 celleporite1808 ceraunite1814 seraph1822 serpulite1828 coprolite1829 subfossil1831 pencil1843 trigonellite1845 buccinite1852 rudist1855 guide fossil1867 witch's cradle1867 coccolith1868 fairy cheeses1869 discolith1871 Portland screw1871 spiniferite1872 cyatholith1875 cryptozoon1883 sabellite1889 palaeospecies1895 homoeomorph1898 rudistid1900 megafossil1932 scolecodont1933 macrofossil1937 hystrichosphere1955 palynomorph1961 acritarch1963 molecular fossil1965 mitrate1967 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. §i. i. 261 The Helick Serpent. Stone, Ophites Ammoneus. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 73 The serpent-stone, or cornu ammonis. 1851 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 4 261 At Whitby, where these fine fossils of the Lias are called ‘St. Hilda's Serpent-stones’. 2. An artificial ‘stone’ used as a remedy for the poison of serpents. Also = bezoar n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antidote > [noun] > antidotes to snake-bite serpent-stone1681 eau-de-Luce1756 antivenin1895 antivenom1897 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antidote > [noun] > other alleged concretions bezoar1477 snake-stone1694 serpent-stone1861 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §iii. 52 The Serpentstone. Said by some, to be factitious. ?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VII.–VIII. Table 62 East India Serpent Stone..much esteemed in the Indies as a certain Remedy for the Bite of the Cobra de Capello or Hooded Snake, out of whose Head some affirm this to be taken; but it's more probable..that it's factitious and said to be composed of burnt Elephant's Bones. 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 167 The artificial Serpent-Stone..is shap'd like a Bean. 1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 297 The Glain naidr or Druidical bead..is..made of glass, marked with figures of serpents coiled up. The common people in Wales and in Scotland..call it by the name of Serpent-stone. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. 68 Bezoars:..(serpent stone, cobra de capello). 3. ? = serpentine stone n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > phyllosilicate > [noun] > serpentine serpentine1426 ophite1592 serpentine stone1662 viper-stone1741 serpent-stone1757 ophiolite1824 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > marble > serpentine ophitesa1398 serpentine1426 ophite1592 serpentine marble1601 serpentine stone1662 viper-stone1741 verd-antique1745 verde antico1753 serpent-stone1757 ophiolite1824 ophicalcite1866 1757 tr. J. F. Henckel Pyritologia 361 Ophites or serpent-stone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1681 |
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