different between snake vs theriac

English

Etymology

From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-Germanic *snakô (compare German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”)), derived from *snakan? (“to crawl”) (compare Old High German snahhan), from Proto-Indo-European *sneg- (“to crawl; a creeping thing”). Cognate with Sanskrit ??? (n?gá, “snake”)). Doublet of n?ga.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sn?k, IPA^(key): /?sne?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Noun

snake (plural snakes)

1. A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.

   Synonyms: joe blake, serpent
2. A treacherous person.
3. (Ireland) Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.
4. A tool for unclogging plumbing.

   Synonyms: auger, plumber's snake

5. A tool to aid cable pulling.

   Synonym: wirepuller

6. (Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
7. (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.

   Synonym: trouser snake

8. (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
9. (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: sneki

Translations

Verb

snake (third-person singular simple present snakes, present participle snaking, simple past and past participle snaked)

1. (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.

   Synonyms: slither, wind

2. (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
3. (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
4. (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)

5. (nautical) 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.

Translations

See also

• anguine

Further reading

• snake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kasen, Keans, akens, asken, kaens, kenas, nakes, skean, sneak

Middle English

Alternative forms

• snak, snaca

Etymology

From Old English snaca, from Proto-Germanic *snakô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sna?k(?)/

Noun

snake (plural snakes or snaken or snake)

1. snake
2. serpent

Descendants

• English: snake
  • Sranan Tongo: sneki
• Scots: snak, snake, snaik

References

• “sn?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

English

Alternative forms

• theriaca

Etymology

From Middle French thériaque, from Medieval Latin theriaca, from Ancient Greek ??????? (th?riak?, “antidote”) feminine form of ???????? (th?riakós, “concerning venomous beasts”), from ??? (th?r, “beast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???.?i..?k], [???.?i..?k]

Noun

theriac (plural theriacs)

1. (historical, pharmacology) A supposed universal antidote against poison, especially snake venom; specifically, one such developed in the 1st century as an improvement on mithridate.
   • 1975, Guido Majno, The Healing Hand, Harvard University Press, 1991, paperback edition, page 415,

     From then on galene became the theriac par excellence, known simply as theriac, and there never was a more successful drug. […] Those who could afford it gulped down a bean-sized lump of theriac for practically everything from the Black Death to nothing at all, as a preventive.

   • 2010, Richard Swiderski, Poison Eaters, Universal-Publishers, page 54,

     A number of theriacs and mithridatia appear in the writings of ancient doctors, but it is rare to find an account of how one of them was used and the effect it had.

2. (obsolete) Treacle; molasses.

Usage notes

• Originally developed in antiquity for kings and used as both preventive and antidote, it came to be regarded as a panacea. In mediaeval times it was thought effective against the bubonic plague and was known among English apothecaries as Venice treacle.

Translations

Adjective

theriac (comparative more theriac, superlative most theriac)

1. (obsolete) Theriacal; medicinal.

See also

• mithridate
• panacea
• treacle
• Venice treacle

Anagrams

• Archite, Rhaetic