Poisonous+snake

  • 121EVOLUTION — Although evolutionary ideas are very old, being found in the works of Greek philosophers and echoed in the aggadah and the Midrash, the main stimulus to evolutionary thought came from the theory developed at the end of the   18th century,… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 122circumstances alter cases — {formal} The way things are, or happen, may change the way you are expected to act. * /John s father told him never to touch his gun, but one day when Father was away, John used it to shoot a poisonous snake that came into the yard. Circumstances …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 123circumstances alter cases — {formal} The way things are, or happen, may change the way you are expected to act. * /John s father told him never to touch his gun, but one day when Father was away, John used it to shoot a poisonous snake that came into the yard. Circumstances …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 124Agkistrodon piscivorus — moccasin moc ca*sin, n. [An Indian word. Algonquin makisin.] [Sometimes written {moccason}.] 1. A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians. [1913… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 125Ancistrodon atrofuscus — moccasin moc ca*sin, n. [An Indian word. Algonquin makisin.] [Sometimes written {moccason}.] 1. A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians. [1913… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 126Ancistrodon piscivorus — moccasin moc ca*sin, n. [An Indian word. Algonquin makisin.] [Sometimes written {moccason}.] 1. A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians. [1913… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 127cottonmouth — moccasin moc ca*sin, n. [An Indian word. Algonquin makisin.] [Sometimes written {moccason}.] 1. A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians. [1913… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 128cottonmouth water moccasin — moccasin moc ca*sin, n. [An Indian word. Algonquin makisin.] [Sometimes written {moccason}.] 1. A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians. [1913… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English