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Worm-eaten   /wərm-ˈitən/   Listen
adjective
Worm-eaten  adj.  
1.
Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as, worm-eaten timber. "Concave as a covered goblet, or a worm-eaten nut."
2.
Worn-out; old; worthless. (R.)





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... she conducted me up a rickety, worm-eaten staircase, to a small room above that which we had just left; and indicating one of the two beds therein as the one belonging to her Jean, and the one, therefore, which I was to occupy, bade me good-night ...
— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood
... name of "putrid sore throat" and "choking distemper." A disease similar in many respects which is very prevalent in Virgina, especially along the eastern border, is commonly known by the name of "blind staggers," and in many of the Southern States this has been attributed to the consumption of worm-eaten, corn. Horses of all ages and mules are subject to ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture
... the magpie and the woodpecker—you read it wrongly, that is all. The magpie simply came to give you my love—poor thing, she can't help having an ugly voice! And then the woodpecker—don't you see, it was just pecking out the worms from the timber—there must be no worm-eaten timber in his home! That's ...
— The Song Of The Blood-Red Flower • Johannes Linnankoski
... discussion that sent its reverberation all over the civilized world. Men of the present generation who in childhood rummaged in their grandmothers' cosy garrets cannot fail to have come across scores of musty and worm-eaten pamphlets, their yellow pages crowded with italics and exclamation points, inveighing in passionate language against the wicked and dangerous society of the Cincinnati. Just before the army was disbanded, the officers, at the suggestion ...
— The Critical Period of American History • John Fiske
... heads have ached, and hands become weary, over those vellum volumes, with their bright initial letters! What hearts have throbbed over the early printed book! How triumphantly was the first copy, now worm-eaten and forgotten, contemplated by the author! How was that invisible world which surrounded him to be ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 • Various


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