n. A serpent; an ophidian; any member of the order Ophidia. See serpent and Qphidia.n. 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.n. 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.n. A snake-like amphibian: as, the Congo snake, the North American Amphiuma means, a urodele amphibian. See Amphiuma.n. A person having the character attributed to a snake; a treacherous person.n. In the seventeenth century, a long curl attached to the wig behind.n. The stem of a narghile.n. See snake-box.n. A form of receiving-instrument used in Wheat-stone's automatic telegraph.n. Same as green-snake.n. Same as garter-snake.n. The harlequin snake.n. See scarlet.To move or wind like a snake; serpentine; move spirally.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.Nautical:To pass small stuff across the outer turns of (a seizing) by way of finish.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.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.