Word Finder - snake

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

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• joe blake
• serpent

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A treacherous person.

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Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.

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A tool for unclogging plumbing.

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• auger
• plumber's snake

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A tool to aid cable pulling.

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• wirepuller

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

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Trouser snake; the penis.

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• trouser snake

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A series of Bézier curves.

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The seventh Lenormand card.

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To follow or move in a winding route.

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The path snaked through the forest.

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• slither
• wind

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To steal slyly.

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He snaked my DVD!

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To clean using a plumbing snake.

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To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.

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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.

There could be a snake in the daylight.

A mouse she could handle – literally, but a snake was something different.

In tropical waters a sea snake is found, which, though very poisonous, rarely bites.

If there is a snake under it, that puts a rock between you and the snake.

What if a snake had been in those bushes?

You never said anything about a snake before.

What difference did it make whether there was a snake or Ed got nervous and threw her?

She screamed and frantically clawed the slender green snake from her arm.

Betsy was safe with a nine and I thought my four bought me cot until Howie's snake eyes saved me.

It's a snake and you almost stepped on it.

As she moved around the cabin opening windows, she examined every inch of the floor for possible entry routes a snake might utilize.

She had been a virtual prisoner in the cabin since she had seen the snake on the porch.

Its immediate bluffs and the shores of some of its tributaries, notably the Snake, are modified by canons.

Nature is not grand in any part of Nebraska, but the Bad Lands are imposing, and in the wooded foot-hills there is an abundance of bold and attractive scenery, particularly in Sioux county, and in Cherry county around Valentine and on the canyon of the Snake river.

Then, never taking her gaze off the snake, she backed down the steps.

Do you know there was a huge snake waiting for me right there in front of the door yesterday when I came home?

Among the inoffensive species are counted the graceful green "tree snake," which pursues frogs, birds and lizards to the topmost branches of the forest; also several species of pythons, the commonest of which is known as the carpet snake.

While in Thrace he is said to have caused the death of Eurydice, who was bitten by a snake while fleeing from him.

One of the most important was the passing of a golden snake under the clothes of the initiated across their bosom and its withdrawal from below - an old rite of adoption.

Among the ophidians, which include many harmless species, are the boa-constrictor, rattlesnake, the dreaded Lachesis and the coral snake.

The largest tributary of the Columbia is the Snake river, which for nearly 200 m.

The chief tributaries of the Snake river in Oregon are the Grand Ronde, Powder, Burnt, Malheur and Owyhee rivers.

The meaning of the name is uncertain; Wellhausen derives it from nan "Eve," or "serpent," in which case the Hivites were originally the snake clan; others explain it from the Arabic hayy, " family," as meaning "dwellers in (Bedouin) encampments."

The karwar is about a foot high, with head disproportionately large; the male figures are sometimes represented with a spear and shield, the female holding a snake.

On the death of Plotinus, as he gave up the ghost, a snake glided from under his bed into a hole in the wall."

His dam Spiletta was by Regulus, son of the Godolphin Barb, from Mother Western, by a son of Snake from a mare by Old Montague out of a mare by Hautboy, from a daughter of Brimmer and a mare whose pedigree was unknown.

Aglauros and Heise disobeyed the injufiction, an&when they saw the child (which had the form of a snake, or round which a snake was coiled) they went mad with fright, and threw themselves from the rock of the Acropolis (or ere killed by the snake).

A snake which she had fashioned for the purpose stung the god, who sent for her as a last resort in his unendurable agony; whereupon she represented to him that nothing but his own mysterious name could overcome the venom of the snake.

Rodmar, for the sake of the treasure, was slain by his sons Fafnir and Regin; and Fafnir, seizing the whole, retired to a desolate heath and, in the form of a snake or dragon, brooded over the hoard.

Tolerance is therefore analogous to, but not identical with, the immunity which takes place with the toxins of infectious diseases and snake poison.

She shuddered as copperhead snake slid off a rock where it was sunning.

A mouse she could handle – literally, but a snake was something different.

His bare back glistened as he walked across the patio and tossed the snake into the bushes.

The king cobra is the largest venomous snake, growing up to 16 ft long.

He entered and found a big snake coiled on the bedding.

They entered into deep conversation, discussing the pending bid item—a statue of a nymph waving a snake.

The penstock, three feet in diameter at this point, was a long black snake, carrying its mountain water to the small generating station, while adjacent black piping and frequent taps provided the ice that coated the cliff sides in gigantic clusters below.

In a nanosecond she realized that the snake was going to strike Ed.

As her body flew over it, she saw the snake's fangs sink into Ed's upper leg – and then she was tumbling down the hill, grabbing at anything available and hoping it wasn't a snake.

The Snake Period arose from the sight of a black adder sunning itself on a rocky outcrop.

The capital's snake charmers have already been dying out.

This month we will be looking for the winter constellation of Hydra, the Snake.

The husbandry requirements for the American copperheads are not much more complicated than for any other snake.

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This was due to the organ having to produce white corpuscles in huge quantities in defense against the snake's venom.

It's not a snake or spider, but the strangler fig tree.

The black mamba is the most deadly snake in the world.

The Romans celebrated the birthday of a town and of its genius, just as they celebrated that of a man; and a snake was a frequent form for this kind of demon; when we compare with this the South African belief that the snakes which are in the neighbourhood of the kraal are the incarnations of the ancestors of the residents, it seems probable that some similar idea lay at the bottom of the Roman belief; to this day in European folklore the house snake or toad, which lives in the cellar, is regarded as the "life index" or other self of the father of the house; the death of one involves the death of the other, according to popular belief.

Foxes, squirrels, otters, snakes (smooth snake, grass snake and adder), butterflies (some of them peculiar to the district), and an occasional badger range the forest freely.

If you were turned off by Sons of Liberty's convoluted storyline and lack of Snake, have no worries about this one.