Word Meaning

Meaning of "worm" and the crossword clue

- Annelid
- Creature in soil
- Early bird’s catch
- Fishing bait swallowed by minnow or mullet
- Spineless creature might carry a virus?
- Spineless person goes by the book, or the tape
- Squirm
- Wriggle
- A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
- Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
- Any helminth; an entozoon.
- Any annelid.
- An insect larva.
- Same as Vermes.
- An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
- A being debased and despised.
- Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
- The thread of a screw.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta.
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still.
- A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
- To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
- To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out.
- To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).
- To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.