\O"phite\, a. [Gr. 'ofi`ths, fr. 'o`fis a serpent.]
Of or pertaining to a serpent. [Obs.]

\O"phite\, n. [L. ophites, Gr. 'ofi`ths (sc. ?), a kind
of marble spotted like a serpent: cf. F. ophite.] (Min.)
A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene
has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness.
So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled
appearance. -- {O*phi"ic}, a.

\O"phite\, n. [L. Ophitae, pl. See {Ophite}, a.]
(Eccl.Hist.)
A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second
century.