snake

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Lushin follows obediently but tells Shakuya not to worry as the snake is apparently no longer poisonous.

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  1. noun Any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes or Ophidia (order Squamata), having a long, tapering, cylindrical body and found in most tropical and temperate regions.
  2. noun A treacherous person. Also called snake in the grass.
  3. noun A long, highly flexible metal wire or coil used for cleaning drains. Also called plumber's snake.
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  • Lushin follows obediently but tells Shakuya not to worry as the snake is apparently no longer poisonous. —  Anime Nano!
  • His lips quirk again, because, really, John Sheppard squirming around like a snake is almost cute. —  Wraithbait
  • The impulse I get if I see a snake or even hear a sound close to resembling that of a snake is a feeling of total fright. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Felix protested that a little fellow like that couldn't do anything with such a cobra as he had shot the day before, for the snake was a trifle more than five feet long. —  Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East
  • Eve declared that a snake was a snake, no matter what any one--meaning Wade--said, and Wade was forced to acknowledge the fact. —  The Lilac Girl
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serpent ·  lizard ·  bird ·  cat ·  lion ·  rat ·  insect ·  spider ·  monster ·  fish ·  worm ·  deer

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snake:   snakes ·  snaked ·  snaking
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English snaca.

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  1. from Middle English make, from Anglo-Saxon snaca (perhaps orig. snāca) (Latin scorpio) = Icelandic snākr, snōkr = Swedish snok = Danish snog = Middle Dutch MLG, snake, a snake; literally ‘creeper,’ derived, like the related snag and snail, from the verb seen in Anglo-Saxon snīcan (preterit *snāc, past participle *snicen), creep, crawl; see sneak. Cf. Sanskrit nāga, a serpent. Cf. reptile and serpent, also from verbs meaning ‘creep.’
  2. from snake, n.
 

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