A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue, In the seventeenth century, a long curl attached to the wig behind, A treacherous person, intransitive verb_ To drag or pull lengthwise, especially to drag with a rope or chain, To move in a sinuous or gliding manne, To crawl like a snake, transitive verb_ Colloq. U.S. To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out, (Naut.) 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