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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

... he would dig one too. We shaped them out and made them wide, And I dug up a piece of clod That had a little worm inside. ...

— Under the Tree • Elizabeth Madox Roberts

... shooting-box in the swamp. Then, if you please, imagine her asking for his card, whereupon he exposes the side of his new tin shield, on which is painted in large Old English letters a Latin motto meaning, "It is the early bird that catches the worm," with bird rampant, worm couchant on a ...

— Comic History of England • Bill Nye

... say, and as I also fancy, I doubt if he will open his treasures to any but to you who have already set him creaking. But we shall see. Some of his MS. extracts are curious and amusing. He writes himself something like Antony Wood, or some such ancient book-worm. It is also curious to hear of the old proud angry people about Peterboro', who ...

— Letters of Edward FitzGerald - in two volumes, Vol. 1 • Edward FitzGerald

... one lithe round arm laid caressingly close to her master's neck. "Then why do you make them Korong?" she asked, with feminine curiosity, like some wife who seeks to worm out of her husband the secret of freemasonry. "Why do you not cook them and eat them at once, as soon as they arrive? They are very good food—so white and fine. That last new-comer, now—the Queen of the Clouds—why not eat her? She is plump ...

— The Great Taboo • Grant Allen

... lullaby; And since woman cannot part from the idols of her heart, And as severed life is Hell for the souls that love too well, Better far the tender form whose lorn life is only storm, With the coffined dead should seek To lie down in a dreamless sleep— And find rest in the dust with the worm. ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

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