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Definition of worm

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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..

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Anthelmintic :: Anthelmintic (a.) Good against intestinal worms.

Copperworm :: Copperworm (n.) The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper..

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..

Absinthin :: Absinthin (n.) The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium).

Serpula :: Serpula (n.) Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts..

Wolf :: Wolf (a.) A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries..

Worm :: Worm (n.) Any annelid.

Vermetus :: Vermetus (n.) Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidae. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube..

Wornil :: Wornil (n.) See Wormil.

Absinthiate :: Absinthiate (v. t.) To impregnate with wormwood.

Dicyemata :: Dicyemata (n. pl.) An order of worms parasitic in cephalopods. They are remarkable for the extreme simplicity of their structure. The embryo exists in two forms.

Flukeworm :: Flukeworm (n.) Same as 1st Fluke, 2..

Retinaculum :: Retinaculum (n.) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.

Earthworm :: Earthworm (n.) A mean, sordid person; a niggard..

Worm :: Worm (v. t.) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out..

Threadworm :: Threadworm (n.) Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria..

Wormil :: Wormil (n.) See 1st Warble, 1 (b)..

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.

Wormy :: Wormy (superl.) Containing a worm; abounding with worms.

Caddis :: Caddis (n.) The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm..