25 March 2013

serpentine

[sur-puhn-teen, -tahyn]

adjective, noun, verb, serpentined, serpentining.

adjective
1. of, characteristic of, or resembling a serpent, as in form or movement.
2. having a winding course, as a road; sinuous.
3. shrewd, wily, or cunning.
noun
4. a device on a harquebus lock for holding the match.
5. a cannon having any of various bore sizes, used from the 15th to the 17th century.
6. Skating. a school figure made by skating two figure eights that share one loop.

Today’s aphorism

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.

– Proverbs 28:6 (ESV)

On this day

25 March 1947 – birth of Elton John (Reginald Dwight), British singer-songwriter.

25 March 1957 – the Treaty of Rome is signed by France, West Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg, establishing the European Economic Community (EEC). In 1993, following the ratifying of the Maastricht Treaty, the EEC became known as the European Community (EC).