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Definition: snake
snake
n 1: limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous [syn:
serpent,
ophidian]
2: a deceitful or treacherous person [syn:
snake in the grass]
3: a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and
flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark
Expedition [syn:
Snake River]
4: a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near
the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer [syn:
Hydra]
5: something resembling a snake
snake
v 1: move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
2: form a snake-like pattern;
“The river snakes through the
valley”
3: move along a winding path;
“The army snaked through the
jungle”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Snake
Snake
\Snake\, n. [AS. snaca; akin to LG. snake, schnake, Icel.
sn[=a]kr, sn?kr, Dan. snog, Sw. snok; of uncertain origin.]
(Zo["o]l.)
Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent,
whether harmless or venomous. See
Ophidia, and
Serpent.
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Note: Snakes are abundant in all warm countries, and much the
larger number are harmless to man.
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Blind snake,
Garter snake,
Green snake,
King snake,
Milk snake,
Rock snake,
Water snake, etc. See under
Blind,
Garter, etc.
Fetich snake (Zo["o]l.), a large African snake (
Python Seb[ae]
) used by the natives as a fetich.
Ringed snake (Zo["o]l.), a common European columbrine snake
(
Tropidonotus natrix).
Snake eater. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The markhoor.
(b) The secretary bird.
Snake fence, a worm fence (which see). [U.S.]
Snake fly (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
neuropterous insects of the genus
Rhaphidia; -- so
called because of their large head and elongated neck and
prothorax.
Snake gourd (Bot.), a cucurbitaceous plant (
Trichosanthes anguina
) having the fruit shorter and less snakelike than
that of the serpent cucumber.
Snake killer. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The secretary bird.
(b) The chaparral cock.
Snake moss (Bot.), the common club moss (
Lycopodium clavatum
). See
Lycopodium.
Snake nut (Bot.), the fruit of a sapindaceous tree
(
Ophiocaryon paradoxum) of Guiana, the embryo of which
resembles a snake coiled up.
Tree snake (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of
colubrine snakes which habitually live in trees,
especially those of the genus
Dendrophis and allied
genera.
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Snake
\Snake\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Snaked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Snaking.]
1. To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with
out. [Colloq. U.S.] --Bartlett.
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2. (Naut.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a
smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces
between the strands of the large one; to worm.
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Snake
\Snake\, v. i.
To crawl like a snake.
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