Word Finder - worms

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A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.

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More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.

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A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent.

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Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.

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A contemptible or devious being.

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Don't try to run away, you little worm!

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A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.

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A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.

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Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.

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Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.

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

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A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.

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The lytta.

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(preceded by definite article) A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.

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To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.

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We wormed our way through the underbrush.

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To move with one's body dragging the ground.

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To work one's way by artful or devious means.

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To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.

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He wormed his way into the organization

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

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(in “worm out of”) 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).

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To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.

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Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.

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To deworm (an animal).

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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.

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To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.

Oh, he got worms out of rotten logs since the ground froze, and so he caught them.

The need for help to prosecute the war in Italy caused the king to call the diet to Worms in March 1495, when he urged the necessity of checking the progress of Charles.

First look out for worms, and supply vacancies by planting anew.

Jule, you opened this can of worms.

The parent moth lays eggs, from which the young "worms" hatch out.

Such in outline were the reforms effected by the important diet of Worms.

She may throw up worms now and then, but that is one of the only symptoms.

During this free examination, did you provide a stool sample so the vet could check for worms?

Armadillos are omnivorous, feeding on roots, insects, worms, reptiles and carrion, and are mostly, though not universally, Peba Armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta).

By the concordat of Worms, 1122, the emperor surrendered the right of investiture by ring and staff, and granted the right of election to the clergy.

In addition to insects, various kinds of worms, molluscs, &c., are sometimes of importance as pests.

Worms bring spores to the surface of soil, ducks and other birds convey them on their muddy feet.

Strong worms and wheels are substituted for the light clockwork.

Segments worms, to illustrate external characters.

We can thus speak in these worms of gonocoels, i.e.

The only comparable fact among other worms is the Laurer's canal or genitointestinal canal in the Trematoda.

They are minute worms with coloured oil drops (green, olive green or orange) contained in the epidermis.

But "the angel of the Lord smote him," and shortly afterwards he died "eaten of worms."

Josephus says nothing of his being "eaten of worms," but the discrepancies between the two stories are of slight moment.

The acrembolic proboscis or frontal introvert of the Nemertine worms has a complete range.

Tyndale and Roy escaped with their sheets to Worms, where the 8vo edition was completed in 1526.

Attempts were made to seize Tyndale at Worms, but he found refuge at Marburg with Philip, landgrave of Hesse.

Rashi was a pupil of Jacob ben Yaqar, and studied at Worms and Mainz.

Though feeding largely on worms and insects they ravage gardens and fields, on which account they are detested by the colonists.

Through the efforts of some German princes negotiations between pope and emperor were renewed, and the important Concordat of Worms made in September 1122 was the result.

These tubes are generally in the form of worms immersed in the water of the calorimeter.

Thus Nereis among the latter worms, from the resemblance which its excretory system bears to that of the Oligochaeta, may be made the starting-point of a series.

It has been men, tioned that in the Nereids a sexual form occurs which differs structurally from the asexual worms, and was originally placed in a separate genus, Heteronereis; hence the name "Heteronereid" for the sexual worm.

The remaining groups are harder to define, with the exception of the (3) Capitelliformia, which are mud-living worms of an "oligochaetous" appearance, and with some affinities to that order.

These worms are in some respects like the Sabellids (Cryptocephala).

The prostomium has many long filaments which recall the gills of the Sabellids, &c. The nephridia are specialized into two series, as in the last-mentioned worms. (5) Spioniformia (including Chaetopterus, Spio, &c.) and (6) Scoleciformia (Arenicola, Chloraema, Sternaspis) are the remaining groups.

This may be associated with mud-eating habits; but it is not wholly certain that this is the case; for in Chaetogaster and Agriodrilus, which are predaceous worms, there is no protrusible pharynx, though in the latter the oesophagus is thickened through its extent with muscular fibres.

These worms lay cocoons like the Oligochaeta and leeches, and where they depart from the structure of the Oligochaeta agree with that of leeches.

Such cannulated cells are characteristic of the nephridia of many worms, and the organs thus formed in the embryo Limnaeus are embryonic nephridia.

Relationships And Phylogeny The Hexapoda form a very clearly defined class of the Arthropoda, and many recent writers have suggested that they must have arisen independently of other Arthropods from annelid worms, and that the Arthropoda must, therefore, be regarded as an " unnatural," polyphyletic assemblage.

In 1803, having formally surrendered the part of Hesse on the left bank of the Rhine which had been taken from him in the early days of the Revolution, Louis received in return a much larger district which had formerly belonged to the duchy of Westphalia, the electorate of Mainz and the bishopric of Worms. In 1806, being a member of the confederation of the Rhine, he took the title of Louis I., grandduke of Hesse; he supported Napoleon with troops from 1805 to 1813, but after the battle of Leipzig he joined the allies.

Louis secured again a district on the left bank of the Rhine, including the cities of Mainz and Worms, but he made cessions of territory to Prussia and to Bavaria and he recognized the independence of HesseHomburg, which had recently been incorporated with his lands.

They bore holes and penetrate into flower-buds and young bolls, causing them to drop. Fortunately the " worms " prefer maize to cotton, and the inter-planting at proper times of maize, to be cut down and destroyed when well infested, is a method commonly employed to keep down this pest.

Indian boll worms include the same species, and the closely related Earias fabia, which also occurs in Egypt.

The caterpillars (" cut worms ") of various species of Agrotis and other moths occur in all parts of the world and attack young cotton.

Formerly, they were gener ally arranged amongst the Platyelminthes as 2 a sub-order in the order of the Turbellarians, but with the advance of our knowledge of these lower worms it has been found desirable to separate them from the Turbellarians and to look upon the Nemertina as a separate phylum.

Such could hardly be obtained in any other way by those worms that have no special respiratory apparatus, and that live in mud and under stones where the natural supply of freshly oxygenated sea-water is practicaily limited.

About the same time Martin Luther was in the full course of his protest against the papal supremacy and had already burnt the pope's bull at Worms. The two opponents were girding themselves for the struggle; and what the Church of Rome was losing by the defection of the Augustinian was being counterbalanced by the conversion of the founder of the Society of Jesus.

He took his part in the theological disputations of the time, at Marburg (1529), the Concordia at Wittenberg (1536), the Convention at Schmalkalden (1537), the discussions at Hagenau and Worms (1540).

In the following year he went to Germany to be present as papal nuncio at the coronation of Charles V., and was also present at the diet of Worms, where he headed the opposition to Luther, advocating the most extreme measures to repress the doctrines of the reformer.

This Franconia was in 843 included in the kingdom of Louis the German, and was then increased by the addition of the territories of Mainz, Spires and Worms, on the right bank of the river.

Associated with Ray in his work, and more especially occupied with the study of the Worms and Mollusca, was Martin Lister (1638-1712), celebrated also as the author of the first geological map.

In the 14th century the original house of Dalberg became extinct in the male line, the fiefs passing to Johann Gerhard, chamberlain of the see of Worms, who married the heiress of his cousin, Anton of Dalberg, about 1330.

His own family was of great antiquity, his ancestors having been hereditary ministerials of the bishop of Worms since the time of Ekbert the chamberlain, who founded in i 119 the Augustinian monastery of Frankenthal and died in 1132.

He was the son of Franz Heinrich, administrator of Worms, one of the chief counsellors of the elector of Mainz.