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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Snake \Snake\, n. [AS. snaca; akin to LG. snake, schnake, Icel. sn[=a]kr, sn?kr, Dan. snog, Sw. snok; of uncertain origin.] (Zool.) Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See {Ophidia}, and {Serpent}. [1913 Webster] Note: Snakes are abundant in all warm countries, and much the larger number are harmless to man. [1913 Webster] {Blind snake}, {Garter snake}, {Green snake}, {King snake}, {Milk snake}, {Rock snake}, {Water snake}, etc. See under {Blind}, {Garter}, etc. {Fetich snake} (Zool.), a large African snake ({Python Sebae}) used by the natives as a fetich. {Ringed snake} (Zool.), a common European columbrine snake ({Tropidonotus natrix}). {Snake eater}. (Zool.) (a) The markhoor. (b) The secretary bird. {Snake fence}, a worm fence (which see). [U.S.] {Snake fly} (Zool.), 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}. (Zool.) (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} (Zool.), any one of numerous species of colubrine snakes which habitually live in trees, especially those of the genus {Dendrophis} and allied genera. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Snake \Snake\, v. i. To crawl like a snake. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: snake n 1: limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous [syn: {snake}, {serpent}, {ophidian}] 2: a deceitful or treacherous person [syn: {snake}, {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}, {Snake River}] 4: a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer [syn: {Hydra}, {Snake}] 5: something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a 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"