Definition of worm

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Worm (n.) 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..

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Woodworm :: Woodworm (n.) See Wood worm, under Wood..
Wormwood :: Wormwood (n.) Anything very bitter or grievous; bitterness.
Absinthic :: Absinthic (a.) Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.
Gid :: Gid (a.) A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See C/nurus..
Vermeology :: Vermeology (n.) A discourse or treatise on worms; that part of zoology which treats of worms; helminthology.
Earthmad :: Earthmad (n.) The earthworm.
Dracunculus :: Dracunculus (n.) The Guinea worm (Filaria medinensis).
Absinthian :: Absinthian (n.) Of the nature of wormwood.
Rot :: Rot (n.) A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2..
Tongueworm :: Tongueworm (n.) Any species of Linguatulina.
Helminthiasis :: Helminthiasis (n.) A disease in which worms are present in some part of the body.
Wornil :: Wornil (n.) See Wormil.
Cirrus :: Cirrus (n.) The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca..
Worm :: Worm (n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms..
Roseworm :: Roseworm (n.) The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially Cacaecia rosaceana, which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds..
Whealworm :: Whealworm (n.) The harvest mite; -- so called from the wheals, caused by its bite..
Dropworm :: Dropworm (n.) The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm..
Absinthe :: Absinthe (n.) The plant absinthium or common wormwood.
Acephalocyst :: Acephalocyst (n.) A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin..
Clepsine :: Clepsine (n.) A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms..
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