worm
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noun- 1.
A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
- 2.
More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms. See Appendix:English worms.
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(archaic, poetic)(archaic or poetic) Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
1561, Geneva Bible, Acts 28:3-4, And when Paul had gathered a nomber of stickes, & laid them on the fyre, there came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. Now when the Barbarians sawe the worme hang on his hand, they said among them selues This man surely is a murtherer, whome, thogh he hathe escaped the sea, yet Vengeance hathe not suffred to liue.
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(broadly, informal, poetic)(informal or poetic, loosely) A maggot or any other insect larva with similar shape and behavior.
Those little wriggling worms are the larvae of flies who laid eggs here.
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(archaic)A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent or any kind of dragon.
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A contemptible or devious being.
Don't try to run away, you little worm!
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(computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network, differing from a virus in usually lacking any destructive effects.
When Trevor opened his email, a worm spread to 100 people in his address book.
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(cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.
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Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
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(figuratively)An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
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(mathematics) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
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(anatomy) The lytta.
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(preceded by definite article) A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
We wormed our way through the underbrush.
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(intransitive)To move with one's body dragging the ground.
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(figuratively, intransitive)To work one's way by artful or devious means.
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(figuratively, transitive)To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
He wormed his way into the organization.
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(often)(often followed by out) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
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(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
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(transitive)(transitive, nautical) To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
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(transitive)To deworm (an animal).
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(transitive)To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
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(transitive)To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
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From Middle English werm,wirm,worm,worme,wrim,wurm,wyrm,wyrme, from Old English weorm, wurm, wyrm, from *wurmi, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz (worm; snake), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis (worm; larva), possibly from *wer- (to turn). vermin wyrm, the latter of which is a fairly recent borrowing directly from the Old English.