Definition of worm

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Worm (n.) A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below..

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Cankerworm :: Cankerworm (n.) The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvae are also called cankerworms..
Vermiculation :: Vermiculation (n.) The act of vermiculating, or forming or inlaying so as to resemble the motion, track, or work of a worm..
Bombyx :: Bombyx (n.) A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See Silkworm..
Entozoa :: Entozoa (n. pl.) A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes..
Diet :: Diet (n.) A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521..
Worm :: Worm (n.) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still..
Clepsine :: Clepsine (n.) A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms..
Gut :: Gut (n.) The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line..
Sericulture :: Sericulture (n.) The raising of silkworms.
Sea Wormwood :: Sea wormwood () A European species of wormwood (Artemisia maritima) growing by the sea.
Rack :: Rack (a.) A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it..
Witworm :: Witworm (n.) One who, or that which, feeds on or destroys wit..
Alembic :: Alembic (n.) An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still..
Creep :: Creep (v. t.) To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl..
Glowworm :: Glowworm (n.) A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvae of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments..
Hairworm :: Hairworm () A nematoid worm of the genus Gordius, resembling a hair. See Gordius..
Absinthial :: Absinthial (a.) Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian.
Bookworm :: Bookworm (n.) A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation.
Lampyris :: Lampyris (n.) A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms..
Wurmal :: Wurmal (n.) See Wormil.
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