Black snake (n.) Alt. of Blacksnake |
Bottle-nosed (a.) Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end. |
Coachwhip snake () A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis). |
Cobra (n.) See Copra. |
Cobra (n.) The cobra de capello. |
Cobra de capello () The hooded snake (Naia tripudians), a highly venomous serpent inhabiting India.Naja -- |
Congo snake () An amphibian (Amphiuma means) of the order Urodela, found in the southern United States. See Amphiuma. |
Coral (n.) The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa. |
Coral (n.) The ovaries of a cooked lobster |
Coral (n.) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything. |
Coral fish () Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals. |
Coral-rag (n.) Same as Corallian. |
False (superl.) Uttering falsehood |
False (superl.) Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc. |
False (superl.) Not according with truth or reality |
False (superl.) Not genuine or real |
False (superl.) Not well founded |
False (superl.) Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental. |
False (superl.) Not in tune. |
False (adv.) Not truly |
False (a.) To report falsely |
False (a.) To betray |
False (a.) To mislead by want of truth |
False (a.) To feign |
False-faced (a.) Hypocritical. |
False-heart (a.) False-hearted. |
False-hearted (a.) Hollow or unsound at the core |
Glass-snake (n.) A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States |
Hook-nosed (a.) Having a hooked or aquiline nose. |
Leaf-nosed (n.) Having a leaflike membrane on the nose |
Nosed (imp. & p. p.) of Nose |
Nosed (a.) Having a nose, or such a nose |
Sea snake () Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidae, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad. |
Shield (n.) A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler. |
Shield (n.) Anything which protects or defends |
Shield (n.) Figuratively, one who protects or defends. |
Shield (n.) In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci. |
Shield (n.) The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon. |
Shield (n.) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses. |
Shield (n.) A spot resembling, or having the form of, a shield. |
Shield (n.) A coin, the old French crown, or ecu, having on one side the figure of a shield. |
Shield (n.) To cover with, or as with, a shield |
Shield (n.) To ward off |
Shield (n.) To avert, as a misfortune |
Shield-bearer (n.) One who, or that which, carries a shield. |
Shield-bearer (n.) Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. |
Shovel-nosed (a.) Having a broad, flat nose |
Snake (n.) Any species of the order Ophidia |
Snake (v. t.) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole |
Snake (v. t.) 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 |
Braxton-Hicks contraction false labor | painless contractions of the muscles of the uterus that continue throughout pregnancy with increasing frequency |
snake dance | a ceremonial dance (as by the Hopi) in which snakes are handled or invoked |
false pretense false pretence | (law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation |
perjury bearing false witness lying under oath | criminal offense of making false statements under oath |
false imprisonment | (law) confinement without legal authority |
false verdict | a manifestly unjust verdict, not true to the evidence |
Coral Sea battle of the Coral Sea | a Japanese defeat in World War II (May ), the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers |
cownose ray cow-nosed ray Rhinoptera bonasus | large ray found along eastern coast of North America |
amphiuma congo snake congo eel blind eel | aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet, of still muddy waters in the southern United States |
glass lizard glass snake joint snake | snakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail |
false gavial Tomistoma schlegeli | crocodile of southeast Asia similar to but smaller than the gavial |
snake serpent ophidian | limbless scaly elongate reptile, some are venomous |
colubrid snake colubrid | mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes |
hoop snake | any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop |
thunder snake worm snake Carphophis amoenus | small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States |
ringneck snake ring-necked snake ring snake | any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck |
hognose snake puff adder sand viper | harmless North American snake with upturned nose, may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed |
leaf-nosed snake | any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America |
green snake grass snake | either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color |
smooth green snake Opheodrys vernalis | of western and central United States |
rough green snake Opheodrys aestivus | of southern and eastern United States |
green snake | any of numerous African colubrid snakes |
whip-snake whip snake whipsnake | any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails |
coachwhip coachwhip snake Masticophis flagellum | a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico, tail resembles a braided whip |
rat snake | any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia |
corn snake red rat snake Elaphe guttata | large harmless snake of southeastern United States, often on farms |
black rat snake blacksnake pilot blacksnake mountain blacksnake Elaphe obsoleta | large harmless shiny black North American snake |
chicken snake | large North American snake |
Indian rat snake Ptyas mucosus | enter buildings in pursuit of prey |
glossy snake Arizona elegans | nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales |
bull snake bull-snake | any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes |
gopher snake Pituophis melanoleucus | bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows |
pine snake | any of several bull snakes of eastern and southeastern United States found chiefly in pine woods, now threatened |
king snake kingsnake | any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors, feed on other snakes and small mammals |
milk snake house snake milk adder checkered adder Lampropeltis triangulum | nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot, southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes |
garter snake grass snake | any of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes |
common garter snake Thamnophis sirtalis | a garter snake that is widespread in North America |
ribbon snake Thamnophis sauritus | slender yellow-striped North American garter snake, prefers wet places |
Western ribbon snake Thamnophis proximus | yellow- or reddish-striped snake of temperate woodlands and grasslands to tropics |
lined snake Tropidoclonion lineatum | secretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods, feeds on earthworms, of central United States |
ground snake Sonora semiannulata | small shy brightlyinged terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America |
eastern ground snake Potamophis striatula Haldea striatula | in some classifications placed in genus Haldea, small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America |
water snake | any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water |
common water snake banded water snake Natrix sipedon Nerodia sipedon | in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia, western United States snake that seldom ventures far from water |
grass snake ring snake ringed snake Natrix natrix | harmless European snake with a bright yellow collar, common in England |
viperine grass snake Natrix maura | a small harmless grass snake |
red-bellied snake Storeria occipitamaculata | harmless woodland snake of southeastern United States |
sand snake | small North American burrowing snake |
banded sand snake Chilomeniscus cinctus | a sand snake of southwestern United States, lives in fine to coarse sand or loamy soil in which it `swims', banding resembles that of coral snakes |
black-headed snake | small secretive ground-living snake, found from central United States to Argentina |