Definition of Worm

Worm

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.

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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Immanuel Kant

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Ambrose Bierce

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Ambrose Bierce

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Mikhail Bakunin

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Bill Vaughan

I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.
Terry Bradshaw

The early bird gets the worm.The early worm... gets eaten.
Norman Ralph Augustine