Definition of worm

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Worm (n.) A being debased and despised.

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Worm :: Worm (n.) 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..
Muckworm :: Muckworm (n.) One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser.
Phoronis :: Phoronis (n.) A remarkable genus of marine worms having tentacles around the mouth. It is usually classed with the gephyreans. Its larva (Actinotrocha) undergoes a peculiar metamorphosis.
Gourdworm :: Gourdworm (n.) The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.
Measle :: Measle (n.) A tapeworm larva. See 2d Measles, 4..
Worm :: Worm (n.) The thread of a screw.
Poling :: Poling (n.) The operation of dispersing worm casts over the walks with poles.
Cast :: Cast (n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm..
Nematelminthes :: Nematelminthes (n. pl.) An ordr of helminths, including the Nematoidea and Gordiacea; the roundworms..
Mad :: Mad (n.) An earthworm.
Whealworm :: Whealworm (n.) The harvest mite; -- so called from the wheals, caused by its bite..
Helminthiasis :: Helminthiasis (n.) A disease in which worms are present in some part of the body.
Wormwood :: Wormwood (n.) A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus..
Worm :: Worm (n.) Any helminth; an entozoon.
Metamere :: Metamere (n.) One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva..
Backworm :: Backworm (n.) A disease of hawks. See Filanders.
Taenia :: Taenia (n.) A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.
Grugru Worm :: Grugru worm () The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy..
Wormed :: Wormed (imp. & p. p.) of Wor.
Vermiculous :: Vermiculous (a.) Containing, or full of, worms; resembling worms..
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