1. 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. A treacherous person. also called snake in the grass.
3. A long, highly flexible metal wire or coil used for cleaning drains. also called plumber's snake.
4. economics A fixing of the value of currencies to each other within defined parameters, which when graphed visually shows these currencies remaining parallel in value to each other as a unit despite fluctuations with other currencies.
5. to drag or pull lengthwise, especially to drag with a rope or chain.
6. to pull with quick jerks.
7. to move in a sinuous or gliding manner: tried to snake the rope along the ledge.
8. to move with a sinuous motion: the river snakes through the valley.

1. A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.
2. A treacherous person.
3. A tool for unclogging plumbing.
4. A tool to aid cable pulling.
5. A trouser snake; the penis.
6. to follow or move in a winding route.
7. to steal slyly.
8. to clean using a plumbing snake.

1. any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. see ophidia, and serpent.
2. to crawl like a snake.
3. to drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out.
4. 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.

1. to move or wind like a snake; serpentine; move spirally.
2. to drag or haul, especially by a chain or rope fastened around one end of the object. as a log; hence, to pull forcibly; jerk: used generally with out or along.
3. nautical:
4. to pass small stuff across the outer turns of (a seizing) by way of finish.
5. to wind small stuff, as marline or spun-yarn, spirally round (a large rope) so that the spaces between the strands will be filled up; worm.
6. to fasten (backstays) together by small ropes stretched from one to the other, so that if one backstay is shot away in action it may not fall on deck.
7. A serpent; an ophidian; any member of the order Ophidia. see serpent and Qphidia.
8. specifically, the common british serpent coluber or Tropidonotus natrix, or Xatrix torquata, a harmless ophidian of the family Colubridæ: distinguished from the adder or viper, a poisonous serpent of the same country.
9. A lizard with rudimentary limbs or none, mistaken for a true snake: as, the aberdeen snake (the blindworm or slow-worm); a glass-snake. see snake-lizard, and cuts under amphisbæna, blindworm, dart-snake, glass-snake, scheltopusik, and serpentiform.
10. A snake-like amphibian: as, the congo snake, the north american Amphiuma means, a urodele amphibian. see Amphiuma.
11. A person having the character attributed to a snake; a treacherous person.
12. in the seventeenth century, a long curl attached to the wig behind.
13. the stem of a narghile.
14. see snake-box.
15. A form of receiving-instrument used in wheat-stone's automatic telegraph.
16. same as green-snake.
17. same as garter-snake.
18. the harlequin snake.
19. see scarlet.

1. a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between virgo and cancer
2. something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
3. a tributary of the columbia river that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the lewis and Clark expedition
4. move along a winding path
5. a deceitful or treacherous person
6. move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
7. limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
8. form a snake-like pattern