Definition: A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a
serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
Definition: Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without
feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals;
as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
Definition: Any helminth; an entozoon.
Definition: Any annelid.
Definition: An insect larva.
Definition: Same as Vermes.
Definition: An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's
mind with remorse.
Definition: A being debased and despised.
Definition: Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
Definition: The thread of a screw.
Definition: A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew,
used for drawing balls from firearms.
Definition: A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the
dog; the lytta. See Lytta.
Definition: The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to
economize space. See Illust. of Still.
Definition: A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are
driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust.
of Worm gearing, below.
Definition: To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
Definition: To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and
secret means; -- often followed by out.
Definition: To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge
from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).
Definition: To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a
dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation
was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
Definition: To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round,
between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small
rope.
