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A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water.

Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards.

In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.

The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta).

English of twelve syllables. The needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk. Nor saw the snake that ambushed for his prey. Trumbull.

he septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.

serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

Snake-shaped.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent. "The anguine or snakelike reptiles." Owen.

Snakelike.

An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.

Most part of this noble lineage carried upon their body for a natural birthmark, . . . a snake. Sir T. North.

An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.

The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.

ded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. Swift. -- Blind snake (Zoöl.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes. -- Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. -- Bli…

A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder. Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak.

A large South African tree snake (Bucephalus Capensis). Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.

gle-acting pumping engine, in which the steam cylinder is placed above the pump. -- Bull snake (Zoöl.), the pine snake of the United States. -- Bull stag, a castrated bull. See Stag. -- Bull wheel, a wheel, or drum, on which a rope is wound for lifting heavy articles, as logs, the tools in well boring, etc.…