Snake word meaning and definition

[noun] limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
[noun] something resembling a snake
[noun] a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
[noun] a tributary of the Columbia River
[noun] a deceitful or treacherous person
[verb] move along a winding path; "The army snaked through the jungle"
[verb] move smoothly, like a snake
[verb] form a snake-like pattern; "The river snakes through the valley"

\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}. 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["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.
\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.
\Snake\, v. i. To crawl like a snake.

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