snake
v.
twist or wind like a snake; move like a snake, move in a sinuous manner, glide; drag
n.
scaly legless reptile with a long narrow body; person who cannot be trusted, traitorous person; plumber's snake, long flexible wire used for clearing drains
Snake
Snake
(v. t.)
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.
(v. t.)
To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out.
(v. i.)
To crawl like a snake.
(n.)
Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Nahash
snake; serpent
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) , by Roswell D. Hitchcock.
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Snake
Noun
1. a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition
(synonym) Snake River
(hypernym) river
(part-holonym) Wyoming, Equality State, WY
(part-meronym) Twin, Twin Falls
2. a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
(synonym) Hydra
(hypernym) constellation
snake
Noun
1. limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
(synonym) serpent, ophidian
(hypernym) diapsid, diapsid reptile
(hyponym) colubrid snake, colubrid
(member-holonym) Serpentes, suborder Serpentes, Ophidia, suborder Ophidia
2. a deceitful or treacherous person
(synonym) snake in the grass
(hypernym) bad person
3. something resembling a snake
(hypernym) object, physical object
(hyponym) closet auger
Verb
1. move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
(hypernym) glide
2. form a snake-like pattern; "The river snakes through the valley"
(hypernym) wind, curve
3. move along a winding path; "The army snaked through the jungle"
(hypernym) weave, wind, thread, meander, wander