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Worm
·noun Any annelid. II. Worm ·noun An insect larva. III. Worm ·noun The thread of a screw. IV. Wor...

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Worm
1) Heb. sas (Isa. 51:8), denotes the caterpillar of the clothes-moth. 2) The manna bred worms (tola...

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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...

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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...

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Worm
the representative in the Authorized Version of several Hebrew words. Sas, which occurs in (Isaiah 5...

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Galley
·noun One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war. II. Galley ·noun A proof sheet taken from typ...

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galley
Building the galley; a game formerly used at sea, in order to put a trick upon a landsman, or fresh-...

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galley
A low, flat-built vessel with one deck, and propelled by sails and oars, particularly in the Mediter...

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Galley
[Ship] ...

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Army worm
·- The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order....

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Grugru worm
·- The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith o...

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Palolo worm
·add. ·- A polystome worm (Palolo viridis) that burrows in the coral reefs of certain of the Pacific...

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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,...

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Worm-shaped
·adj Shaped like a worm; /hick and almost cylindrical, but variously curved or bent; as, a worm-shap...

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Worm-shell
·noun Any species of Vermetus. ...

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Palmer-worm
(Heb. gazam). The English word may denote either a caterpillar (as rendered by the LXX.), which wand...

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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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stomach worm
The stomach worm gnaws; I am hungry. ...

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worm-snake
n. See under snake. ...

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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 ...

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black-worm
the black-beetle. Cornish. ...

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blind-worm
the snake called a slow-worm. N. and S. ...

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worm-stall
a shed in a field to which cattle retire to avoid flies. Derb. ...

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lob-worm
A worm found at low-water in sand, esteemed for bait. ...

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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...

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Galley-bird
·noun The European green woodpecker; also, the spotted woodpecker. ...

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Galley Dock
South of Galley Quay, Thames Street (O.S. 1894-6). In Tower Ward. First mention: O.S. 1848-51. ...

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Galley Quay
South out of Lower Thames Street, east of the Custom House and Wool Quays (P.O. Directory). In Tower...

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Galley Row
A quadrant in Tower Street, between Hart lane and Church lane, because Galley men dwelled there (S. ...

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galley foist
A city barge, used formerly on the lord mayor's day, when he was sworn in at Westminster. ...

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galley-arches
Spacious and well-built structures in many of the Mediterranean ports for the reception and security...

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galley-fust
The lord-mayor's barge, and other vessels for holidays. (See fust.) ...

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galley-foist or fust
The lord-mayor's barge, and other vessels for holidays. (See fust.) ...

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galley-growlers
Idle grumblers and skulkers, from whom discontent and mutiny generally derive their origin. Hence, "...

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galley-nose
The figure-head. ...

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galley-packet
An unfounded rumour. (See galley-growlers.) ...

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galley-pepper
The soot or ashes which accidentally drop into victuals in cooking. ...

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galley-slang
The neological barbarisms foisted into sea-language. ...

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galley-slave
A person condemned to work at the oar on board a galley, and chained to the deck. ...

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galley-stoker
A lazy skulker. ...

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galley-trough
See gerletroch. ...

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half-galley
See galley. ...

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quarter-galley
A Barbary cruiser. ...

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rounds of the galley
The opposite of what is termed Coventry; for it is figurative of a man incurring the expressed scorn...

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