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Worm

noun

Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae.

A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect. Synonyms: dirt ball, insect, louse.

A software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network.

Screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack.

verb

(past & past part. wormed; pres. part. worming)

To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling). Synonyms: squirm, twist, wrestle, wriggle, writhe. "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"

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"Worm" Quotes from Famous Books

... Anxur's maids, And the white head of Vulso, The great Arician seer, And Nepos of Laurentum The hunter of the deer; And in the back false Sextus Felt the good Roman steel, And wriggling in the dust he died, Like a worm beneath the wheel: And fliers and pursuers Were mingled in a mass; And far away the battle Went roaring ...

— Lays of Ancient Rome • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... immur'd within their private cells, Drinking a long lank watching candle's smoke, Spending the marrow of their flow'ring age In fruitless poring on some worm-eat leaf. [7] ...

— Shakspere And Montaigne • Jacob Feis

... ere on thou dost stray, I've seen thee with flowers strew the wanderer's way. They lived in their brightness, When thou in this lightness, Had'st fled farthest off; and sometimes they became A Bauta-stone over the worm-wasted frame. ...

— Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams - and other ballads • Thomas J. Wise

... them one must resemble thyself on infinity. Humbly contented, I remain in my own prescribed circle. Incomprehensible Being! thy resplendent glories blind the presuming eye of man! and He from whom the earth receives its being, needs not the praises of a worm! ...

— Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 • Edward Ziegler Davis

... Give two teaspoonfuls powdered Kamala. Should the bowels not move within two and-a half hours, give another teaspoonful of the Kamala. You may follow this in two hours by from half to one oz. Castor Oil. This is a positive cure for Tape Worm. It will not make the patient sick. In buying the drug be sure and get Kamala, not Camellea. Kamala is in appearance like quite red brick dust, and is nearly tasteless, whereas Camellea is ...

— One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed • C. A. Bogardus

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