Snake : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Snake	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Snake
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
snake n limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous [syn: snake, serpent, ophidian] a deceitful or treacherous person Synonym(s): snake, snake in the grass a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition Synonym(s): Snake, Snake River a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer Synonym(s): Hydra, Snake something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake v move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake form a snake-like pattern; "The river snakes through the valley" move along a winding path; "The army snaked through the jungle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snake \Snake\, n. [AS. snaca; akin to LG. snake, schnake, Icel. sn[be]kr, sn[?]kr, Dan. snog, Sw. snok; of uncertain origin.] (Zo[94]l.) 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} (Zo[94]l.), a large African snake ({Python Seb[91]}) used by the natives as a fetich. {Ringed snake} (Zo[94]l.), a common European columbrine snake ({Tropidonotus natrix}). {Snake eater}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The markhoor. (b) The secretary bird. {Snake fence}, a worm fence (which see). [U.S.] {Snake fly} (Zo[94]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[94]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[94]l.), any one of numerous species of colubrine snakes which habitually live in trees, especially those of the genus {Dendrophis} and allied genera.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snake \Snake\, v. i. To crawl like a snake.