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We have spotted WORM (4 Letters) a total of 18 times in our database. Below you may see the clues associated with WORM and also when and where was it last seen:

Definition

• 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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Usage among publishers:

  • USA Today: Feb 8, 2024
  • New York Times: Sep 29, 2023
  • USA Today: Sep 27, 2023
  • LA Times: Sep 22, 2023
  • New York Times: Sep 9, 2023
  • Newsday: Mar 7, 2023