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  • 11Snake scales — Snakes, like other reptiles, have a skin covered in scales. Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India. page 1] Snakes are entirely covered with scales or scutes of various shapes and sizes. Scales protect the body of the snake, aid it… …

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  • 12poisonous — poisonous, venomous, virulent, toxic, mephitic, pestilent, pestilential, miasmic, miasmatic, miasmal are comparable when they mean having the properties or the effects of poison (see POISON) Basically poisonous implies that the thing so described …

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  • 13Snake charming — is the practice of apparently hypnotising a snake by simply playing an instrument. A typical performance may also include handling the snakes or performing other seemingly dangerous acts, as well as other street performance staples, like juggling …

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  • 14Snake handling — is a religious ritual in a small number of pentecostal churches in the U.S., usually characterized as rural and Holiness. Practitioners believe it dates to antiquity and quote the Book of Mark and the Book of Luke to support the practice:And… …

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  • 15Snake Attack! — is the title of the Masters of the Universe minicomic that makes a spotlight on the characters Rattlor and Tung Lashor. It was packaged with Rattlor and Tung Lashor s action figures.Characters;Heroic Warriors: Prince Adam/He Man, Extendar, King… …

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  • 16Snake-stones — also known as the viper s stone, black stone, the black stone, der schwarze Stein, la pierre noire, and la piedrita negracite web |author=Wereld Missiehulp |title=BLACKSTONES |language=Dutch |url=http://www.wmhelp.be/anderediensten.htm accessdate …

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  • 17snake — [snāk] n. [ME < OE snaca, akin to ON snakr, MLowG snake: for IE base see SNAIL] 1. any of a limbless suborder (Serpentes, order Squamata) of reptiles with an elongated, scaly body, lidless eyes, and a tapering tail: some species have a… …

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  • 18venomous snake — poisonous snake …

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  • 19snake — snakelike, adj. /snayk/, n., v., snaked, snaking. n. 1. any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas. 2. a treacherous person; an …

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  • 20snake — snake1 S3 [sneık] n [: Old English; Origin: snaca] 1.) an animal with a long thin body and no legs, that often has a poisonous bite ▪ A snake slithered across our path. a poisonous/venomous snake 2.) also snake in the grass informal someone …

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