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ser·pen·tine stone
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Serpentine Stonenoun
There were three species of this stone known among the ancients, all resembling one another, and celebrated for the same virtues. They were all of the marble kind: the one was green, variegated with spots of black, thence called the black ophites; another, called the white ophites, was green also, but variegated with spots of white: the third was called tephria, and was of a grey colour, variegated with small black spots. The first species was chiefly used in medicine, and found by the ancients only in Egypt; but it is frequent in the desarts of Arabia, in the islands of the Archipelago, in Italy, and we have whole quarries of it in Wales. The ancients tell us, that it was a certain remedy against the poison of the bite of serpents; but it is now justly rejected. John Hill Mat. Med.
Accept in good part a bottle made of a serpentine stone, which hath the quality to give any wine or water, that shall be infused therein for four and twenty hours, the taste and operation of the spaw-water, and is very medicinable for the cure of the spleen and gravel. Henry Wotton.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of serpentine stone in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of serpentine stone in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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