worm
suomi-englanti sanakirjaworm englannista suomeksi
toukka, mato
kierre
liero, käärme
madella, kiemurrella
worm englanniksi
A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
(RQ:Allingham China Governess)’
More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as worms, worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
(RQ:Shelley Poetical Works)
Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
1561, ''(w)'', (w) 28:3-4,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10675.0001.001
- And when Paul had gathered a nomber of stickes, & laid them on the fyre, there came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. Now when the Barbarians sawe the worme hang on his hand, they said among them selues This man surely is a murtherer, whome, thogh he hathe escaped the sea, yet Vengeance hathe not suffred to liue.
(RQ:Shakespeare Cymbeline) No, ’tis slander,Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongueOutvenoms all the worms of Nile (..)
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A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent(w) at Wikipedia or any kind of dragon.
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(quote-book)
Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless),(w) at Wikipedia a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a death worm.(w) at Wikipedia
A contemptible or devious being.
(ux)
(RQ:KJV)
(quote-book)|chapter=Godly Sorrow ariſing from the Sufferings of Chriſt|title=Hymns and Spiritual Songs|location=London|publisher=J. Humfreys|page=86|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_hymns-and-spiritual-song_watts-isaac_1707/page/86|text=Would he devote that Sacred Head / For ſuch a Worm as I?
A self-replicating program that propagates through a network, differing from a virus in usually lacking any destructive effects.
A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.
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A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a drive|worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
A maggot.
An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3)
The lytta.
A dance, or move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
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To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
(quote-journal)|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/05/27/think-bbc-biased-check-wokepedia/|passage=With “facts” generated by Wikipedia worming themselves into every corner of our digital lives, such as your Alexa speaker or iPhone, perhaps it’s the ubiquity of information that’s the problem – and something that should concern us all.
To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
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To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
(RQ:Dickens David Copperfield)wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell.
{{RQ:Belloc Lowndes Lodger|XXII|1738
To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
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To deworm (an animal).
To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
(RQ:Scott Guy Mannering) assisted the laird in his sporting parties, wormed his dogs, and cut the ears of his terrier puppies.
To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
(soft mutation of)
(mixed mutation after 'th of)
(l), (n-g)
(infl of)
A (l) or insect resembling one:
A parasitic (l) (gloss)
A (l) symbolising regret or malice.
A dragon (gloss)
Any pestilential or creeping creature.
A pauper, miser, or other contemptuous individual.
(l) (gloss)