SNAKE

snake, serpent, ophidian

(noun) limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

snake

(noun) something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake

Hydra, Snake

(noun) a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

Snake, Snake River

(noun) a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition

snake, snake in the grass

(noun) a deceitful or treacherous person

snake

(verb) move along a winding path; “The army snaked through the jungle”

snake

(verb) move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake

snake

(verb) form a snake-like pattern; “The river snakes through the valley”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

snake (plural snakes)

A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.

Synonyms: joe blake, serpent

A treacherous person.

(Ireland) Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.

A tool for unclogging plumbing.

Synonyms: auger, plumber's snake

A tool to aid cable pulling.

Synonym: wirepuller

(Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.

(slang) Trouser snake; the penis.

Synonym: trouser snake

(maths) A series of Bézier curves.

(cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.

Verb

snake (third-person singular simple present snakes, present participle snaking, simple past and past participle snaked)

(intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.

Synonyms: slither, wind

(transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.

(transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.

(US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.

(nautical) 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.

Anagrams

• Kasen, Keans, akens, asken, kaens, nakes, skean, sneak

Proper noun

Snake

The sixth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

(video games) An early computer game, later popular on mobile phones, in which the player attempts to manoeuvre a perpetually growing snake so as to collect food items and avoid colliding with walls or the snake's tail.

(geography) A river in the northwestern United States, tributary to the Columbia.

Anagrams

• Kasen, Keans, akens, asken, kaens, nakes, skean, sneak

Source: Wiktionary

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Snake, n. Etym: [AS. snaca; akin to LG. snake, schnake, Icel. snakr, sn, Dan. snog, Sw. snok; of uncertain origin.] (Zoöl.)

Definition: Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.

Note: Snakes are abundant in all warm countries, and much the larger number are harmless to man. Blind snake, Garter snake, Green snake, King snake, Milk snake, Rock snake, Water snake, etc. See under Blind, Garter, etc.

– Fetich snake (Zoöl.), a large African snake (Python Sebæ) used by the natives as a fetich.

– Ringed snake (Zoöl.), a common European columbrine snake (Tropidonotus natrix).

– Snake eater. (Zoöl.) (a) The markhoor. (b) The secretary bird.

– Snake fence, a worm fence (which see). [U.S.] -- Snake fly (Zoöl.), 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. (Zoöl.) (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 (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of colubrine snakes which habitually live in trees, especially those of the genus Dendrophis and allied genera.

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.

2. (Naut.)

Definition: 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.

Snake, v. i.

Definition: To crawl like a snake.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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