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Stall
·vi To kennel, as dogs.
II. Stall ·vi A stable; a place for cattle.
III. Stall ·vt To keep close; ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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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Green-stall
·noun A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Stall-fed
·Impf & ·p.p. of Stall-feed.
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Stall-feed
·vt To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall-feed an <<Ox>>.
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Stall-feeding
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Stall-feed.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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stall whimper
A bastard. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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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blind-worm
the snake called a slow-worm. N. and S.
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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