worm

Definitions

1. 1noun

   A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.

2. 2noun

   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.

3. 3noun

   Any helminth; an entozoon.

4. 4noun

   Any annelid.

5. 5noun

   An insect larva.

6. 6noun

   Same as Vermes.

7. 7noun

   An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.

8. 8noun

   A being debased and despised.

9. 9noun

   Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm

10. 10noun

    The thread of a screw.

11. 11noun

    A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.

12. 12noun

    A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta.

13. 13noun

    The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still.

14. 14noun

    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.

15. 15intransitive verb

    To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.

16. 16transitive verb

    To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out.

17. 17transitive verb

    To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm. 5 (b).

18. 18noun

    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.

19. 19noun

    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.

20. 20noun

    any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae

21. 21noun

    screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack

22. 22noun

    a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network

    "worms take advantage of automatic file sending and receiving features found on many computers"

23. 23noun

    a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

    Synonyms

    insectlouse
24. 24verb

    to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)

    "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"

    "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"

    Synonyms

    squirmtwistwrestlewrigglewrithe