Word Finder - worm

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A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.

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More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.

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A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent.

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Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.

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A contemptible or devious being.

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Don't try to run away, you little worm!

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A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.

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A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.

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Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.

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Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.

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An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.

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A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.

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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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To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.

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We wormed our way through the underbrush.

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To move with one's body dragging the ground.

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To work one's way by artful or devious means.

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To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.

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He wormed his way into the organization

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To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; often followed by out.

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(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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To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.

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Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.

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To deworm (an animal).

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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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To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.

The adult worm in the female sometimes reaches a length of 6 ft.

A bird came and brought a great big worm.

It then often retains its vitality for a long time, apparently crawling as if it were itself a worm, a phenomenon which is at least partially explained by the extraordinary development of nervous tissue, equally distributed all through the walls of the proboscis, and either united into numerous longitudinal nerve-stems (Drepanophorus, Amphiporus) or spread out into a uniform and comparatively thick layer (Cerebratulus, sp.).

The Egyptian cotton worm is Prodenia littoralis.

Meal Worm Farm - We sell mealworms starting at $ 8.00 per thousand.

I have never so much as tasted a grub worm.

The pair fished corn tipped with red worm over carp pellet.

Cut a gummy worm in half and stick the cut end into the frosting.

Rhynchelmis, which afterwards become by an enlargement and opening up of the funnel the permanent nephridia of the adult worm.

It appears to be primarily related to the organs of attachment and to have attained greater elaboration than the rest of the nervous system because the proximal end is the most specialized and most stimulated portion of the worm.

Good ventilation is indispensable to allow the worm to give out by transpiration the great quantity of water that it absorbs with the leaf.

Next in promising qualities is the muga or moonga worm of Assam, Antheraea assaina, a species to some extent domesticated in its native country.

The silk of the eria or castor-oil worm (Attacus ricini) presents the same difficulties in dyeing as the common tussur.

The dorsal surface is smooth; ventrally there are five pairs of parapodia, armed with supporting and hooked setae, by means of which the worm adheres to its host.

Diseases related to poor sanitation include dysentery, hepatitis, bilharzia, guinea worm, hook worm and tape worm.

Prickly sow-thistle seeds ingested by earthworms have been found intact in the worm casts.

Fall, and then comment on the acceleration due to gravity... Worm Theory Why do endgames take so long?

Another hot method for mild winter days is a groundbait feeder attack, fished along with worm or red maggots for bream.

The calcareous tube worm Serpula vermicularis forms twisting masses of tubes on the shell occupied by the hermit crab.

If human homologues of the genes that we find in the worm play a similar role in signaling, they are candidate cancer genes.

Of note there was adder, as well as viviparous lizard and slow worm.

Monday's session focused on describing the roles of signaling molecules at the synapse in regulating worm locomotion.

Andy caught most of his fish on the feeder, using worm with a few fish also taken on the float fishing maggot.

Whilst feeling mischievous, I will share my equivalent of " Blind Worm " with you.

Bait wise, paste, corn, meat, worm and maggot are all working as are boilies and banded pellet.

These are the small piles of worm shaped earth you can find on your lawn in winter.

June 7th Visited Lee, captured worm pipefish, it has some damage to its tail fin.

It is the place where the fire never goes out, where the worm never dies, where the thirst is never quenched.

Andrews successful bait was a grain of corn tipped of with a small red worm which he fished over hemp and chopped corn.

And there has been enormous progress in fighting river blindness, guinea worm, diarrheal diseases, and others.

They settle on other worm tubes, building large mounds that eventually transform a flat sandy gravelly seabed into an extensive reef.

Aquatic insect larvae like mosquito and midge larvae have slender elongated worm like bodies.

The effect is to cause sudden binding or grinding down of worm teeth.

Great baits are lob worm, canned sweet corn and bread flake, please do not keep you baits inside our holiday home.

Larger worm burdens can cause a range of problems including ill thrift, diarrhea, colic and death.

Red maggot with chopped worm mixed in with the ground bait is the killer with anglers taking up to 10 slabs at a sitting.

There is a health hazard with the muck from geese which may contain an intestinal worm.

As long as the worm composter is working properly, the worm composter is working properly, the worms will be able to handle these substances.

For the nematode worm was an unknown in the world of model organisms.

Such e-mails normally have an attachment carrying a mass-mailing worm which will harvest false ' from ' addresses from your computer's address-book.

The most commonly found worm in the garden is the lob worm.

Karen found a very nice bristle worm - about 10 cms long - on top of a rock.

The Yuckiest site on the Internet Hang out at Club yucky, visit Worm World, or play some really yucky games.

The function of alimentation is closely associated with that of locomotion, somewhat as in the burrowing earthworm; in the excavation of its burrows the sand is passed through the body, and any nutrient matter that may adhere to it is extracted during its passage through the intestine, the exhausted sand being finally ejected through the vent at the orifice of the burrow and appearing at low tide as a worm casting.

Other marine forms are Rhizopoda (Rotalia and Textillaria), the sponge Amorphina, the Amphicteis worm, the molluscs Cardium edule and other Cardidae, and some Amphipods (Cumacea and Mysidae,), but they are forms which either tolerate variations in salinity or are especially characteristic of brackish waters.

Furthermore, he must abstain all his life from sexual intercourse; he may not take even a blade of grass without permission of the owner; he must not kill even a worm or ant; he must not boast of his perfection.

Use light gear at different depths with thin Mackerel strips, rag worm or bread to tempt the smaller fish.

Cliff 's successful tactics and bait was a small feeder fished at 30m with corn and red worm on the hook.

Use herring strip, sand-eels, sardine, peeler crab and red rag worm for best results.

We battled with heavy old secondhand scythe blades that we didn't know how to sharpen properly, attached to worm eaten handles.