Grugru worm

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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...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Grugru palm

  ·- A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. ·see Macaw tree, under <<Macaw>>. ...

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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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• Galley-worm

  ·noun A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along ...

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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. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• stomach worm

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

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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 ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• black-worm

  the black-beetle. Cornish. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• blind-worm

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

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• 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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