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Worm
·noun Any annelid.
II. Worm ·noun An insect larva.
III. Worm ·noun The thread of a screw.
IV. Wor...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Worm
1) Heb. sas (Isa. 51:8), denotes the caterpillar of the clothes-moth.
2) The manna bred worms (tola...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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worm
To worm out; to obtain the knowledge of a secret by craft, also to undermine or supplant. He is gone...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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worm
An iron tool shaped like a double cork-screw on the end of a long staff, for withdrawing charges, ig...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Worm
the representative in the Authorized Version of several Hebrew words. Sas, which occurs in (Isaiah 5...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Blind
·noun A halting place.
II. Blind ·adj Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
III. Blind ·n...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Blind
Blind beggars are frequently mentioned (Matt. 9:27; 12:22; 20:30; John 5:3). The blind are to be tre...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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blind
A feint, pretence, or shift.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind
I.
A name on the west coast of Scotland for the pogge, or miller's thumb (Cottus cataphractus).
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Army worm
·- The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order....
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Galley-worm
·noun A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Grugru worm
·- The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith o...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Palolo worm
·add. ·- A polystome worm (Palolo viridis) that burrows in the coral reefs of certain of the Pacific...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Worm-eaten
·adj Worn-out; old; worthless.
II. Worm-eaten ·adj Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as,...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Worm-shaped
·adj Shaped like a worm; /hick and almost cylindrical, but variously curved or bent; as, a worm-shap...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Worm-shell
·noun Any species of Vermetus.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Palmer-worm
(Heb. gazam). The English word may denote either a caterpillar (as rendered by the LXX.), which wand...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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spanish worm
A nail: so called by carpenters when they meet with one in a board they are sawing.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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stomach worm
The stomach worm gnaws; I am hungry.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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worm-snake
n.
See under snake.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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worm-fence
A rail fence laid up in a zig-zag manner.
Mr. Haskell, one of the delegates from Tennessee, told a ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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black-worm
the black-beetle. Cornish.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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worm-stall
a shed in a field to which cattle retire to avoid flies. Derb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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lob-worm
A worm found at low-water in sand, esteemed for bait.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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worm-eaten
, or wormed.
The state of a plank or of a ship's bottom when perforated by a particular kind of bo...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Blind reader
·add. ·- A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Color-blind
·adj Affected with color blindness. ·see Color blindness, under Color, ·noun.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hoodman-blind
·noun An old term for blindman's buff.
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Sand-blind
·adj Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind.
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Snow-blind
·adj Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow.
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Star-blind
·adj Half blind.
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Stock-blind
·adj Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
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Stone-blind
·adj As blind as a stone; completely blind.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Blind Harry or Henry the Minstrel
(fl. 1470-1492)
Is spoken of by John Major in his History of Scotland as a wandering minstrel, skil...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Blind, Mathilde
(1841-1896)
Poetess, b. at Mannheim, but settled in London about 1849, and pub. several books of po...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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blind cheeks
The breech. Buss blind cheeks; kiss mine a-se.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind excuse
A poor or insufficient excuse. A blind ale-house, lane, or alley; an obscure, or little known or fre...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind harpers
Beggars counterfeiting blindness, playing on fiddles, &c.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind cupid
The backside.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind shark
or Sand Shark
,n. i.q. Shovel-nose (q.v.).
1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods `Fish and Fisheries of N...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blind-bucklers
Those fitted for the hawse-holes, which have no aperture for the cable, and therefore used at sea to...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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blind-harbour
One, the entrance of which is so shut in as not readily to be perceived.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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blind-rock
One lying just under the surface of the water, so as not to be visible in calms.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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blind-shell
One which, from accident or bad fuze, has fallen without exploding, or one purposely filled with lea...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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blind-stakes
A sort of river-weir.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Blind Chapel Court
See Blanch Appleton Court.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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cupid, blind cupid
A jeering name for an ugly blind man: Cupid, the god of love, being frequently painted blind.
See b...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind-your-eyes
n.
another name for the Milky Mangrove. See mangrove.
♣ ~, doing the
v. lounging in thefashionabl...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to go it blind
To accede to any object with out due consideration. Mr. Greeley, in speaking of General Taylor's cla...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.