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Scratch :: Scratch (v. t.) To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow..

Earth :: Earth (v. i.) To burrow.

Burrow :: Burrow (v. i.) To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits..

Saxicavous :: Saxicavous (a.) Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus..

Unburrow :: Unburrow (v. t.) To force from a burrow; to unearth.

Latibulum :: Latibulum (n.) A concealed hiding place; a burrow; a lair; a hole.

Gribble :: Gribble (n.) A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America..

Hippe :: Hippe (n.) A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also bait bug. See Illust. under Anomura..

Shipworm :: Shipworm (n.) Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo..

Thunderworm :: Thunderworm (n.) A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard (Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisbaena, native of Florida; -- so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower..

Pichiciago :: Pichiciago (n.) A small, burrowing, South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus), allied to the armadillos. The shell is attached only along the back..

Slepez :: Slepez (n.) A burrowing rodent (Spalax typhlus), native of Russia and Asia Minor. It has the general appearance of a mole, and is destitute of eyes. Called also mole rat..

Burrow :: Burrow (n.) A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5..

Aard-vark :: Aard-vark (n.) An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue..

Spirable :: Spiodea (n. pl.) An extensive division of marine Annelida, including those that are without oral tentacles or cirri, and have the gills, when present, mostly arranged along the sides of the body. They generally live in burrows or tubes..

Earth :: Earth (v. t.) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den..

Clapper :: Clapper (n.) A rabbit burrow.

Gopher :: Gopher (n.) A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows..

Sheldrake :: Sheldrake (n.) Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, / tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows..

Wormhole :: Wormhole (n.) A burrow made by a worm.

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