serpent

A snake, especially a large or dangerous one.

He falls into it, who has digg'd a Pit. Who breaks a Hedge is with a Serpent bit.

Coiled up behind the shrub, […] was a green imamba, the most dreaded of all South African serpents.

A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.

He is a very serpent in my way.

'Dogs and serpents,' She began in a low voice that gradually gathered power as she went on, till the place rang with it. Eaters of human flesh, two things have ye done. First, ye have attacked these strangers, being white men, and would have slain their servant, and for that alone death is your reward.'

An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).

A kind of firework with a serpentine motion.

A snake-like monster, such as a dragon or sea serpent.

Then Beowulf too rallied. With his whetted dagger he slit a gash in the serpent's middle.

To wind or meander

To encircle.

fruit-trees, whose boles are serpented with excellent vines

Synonym of Serpens (a constellation).

Synonym of Satan.

Quin, with the wisdom of the serpent, called for more drinks.