snaky

adj

1. Resembling or relating to snakes; snakelike.

   “[S]ome of Serpent kinde Wondrous in length and corpulence involv'd Thir Snakie foulds, and added wings.”

   “There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.”

   “To look at the tawny brawn of his lithe snaky limbs, you would almost have credited the superstitions of some of the earlier Puritans, and half believed this wild Indian to be a son of the Prince of the Powers of the Air.”

2. Windy; winding; twisty; sinuous, wavy.

   “Walking through the snaky passages I was soon completely lost.”

   “So are thoſe criſped ſnaky golden locks Which maketh ſuch wanton gambals with the wind, Vpon ſuppoſed faireneſſe, often knowne To be the dowry of a ſecond head, The skull that bred them in the Sepulcher.”

   “The nuns' veils billowed and flapped behind the snaky line of girls as if the sisters were shooing the serpent from the Garden of Eden.”

3. (obsolete)Sly; cunning; deceitful.

   “So to the Coaſt of Jordan he directs His eaſie ſteps; girded with ſnaky wiles, […]”

4. (obsolete)Covered with serpents; having serpents.

   “What was that ſnakie headed Gorgon ſheild That wiſe Minerva wore, unconquer’d virgin Wherewith ſhe freez’d her foes to congeal’d ſtone? But rigid looks of Chaſt auſteritie And noble grace that daſh’t brute violence With ſudden adoration, and blancke aw.”

   “His Hat, adorn’d with Wings, diſclos’d the God, And in his Hand he bore the Sleep-compelling Rod: Such as he ſeem’d, when at his Sire’s Command On Argus Head he laid the Snaky Wand; […]”