Worm

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WORM, sb. and v. Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. and Eng. Also in forms wirm Sh.I.; worom Cor.; worrm Yks.; wurrm Ir. [wərm, wə̄m.] 1. sb. In comb. (1) Worm-dap, to fish in a particular manner, using a worm as bait; see Dap, v. 3; (2) Worm-eat, to become worm-eaten; (3) Worm-heaves, mould thrown up by worms; (4) Worm-in-the-tail, see below; (5) Worm-land, the churchyard; (6) Worm-month, the month of July; the last half of July and the first half of August; (7) Worm-nat, a worm-hole; (8) Worm-picked, see (2); (9) Worm-pipe, the fish, Syngnathus lumbriciformis; (10) Worm-puts, (11) Worm-sprouts, (12) Worm-stall, see (3); (13) Worm-web, a cobweb. (1) Dev. Jan had been worm-dapping for trout all the afternoon, Mortimer W. Moors (1895) 191. (2) n.Yks. Walnut wood weant worm-eat (I.W.). (3) s.Wor. (H.K.) (4) w.Yks.1 Chs.1 An imaginary disease to which cows are supposed to be liable; or rather several ailments are attributed to the supposed presence of the worm. Near the extremity of the tail there is a spot somewhat softer than the rest, as if two of the vertebrae were slightly separated. This is supposed to indicate the position of the worm, and various methods are resorted to to dislodge it, as cutting the place with a knife. (5) n.Yks.2 (6) Per. This name has obviously originated from the hatching of many kinds of reptiles in this month (Jam.). N.I.1 (7) n.Yks. (T.S.) (8) N.I.1 (9) Dev. The commonest [of Pipe-fishes] in shallow waters ─ the Worm-pipe, Good Wds. (1864) 669. (10) e.An. (Hall.), Suf.1 (11) n.Yks. (I.W.) (12) Lei.1 (13) Sc. (Jam.) Ayr. Your leddyship's character's no a gauze gown or a worm-web to be spoilt with a spittle, or ony other foul thing out of the mouth of man, Galt Sir A. Wylie (1822) xxi. 2. Phr. to be troubled with a malt worm, to have an immoderate craving for liquor. s.Lan.1 25. See Malt-worm, s.v. Malt, sb.1 1 (15). 3. A maggot. n.Yks.1 4. A serpent. Sc. (Jam.), N.Cy.1, Nhb.1 Cf. hag-worm. 5. A person; gen. used in contempt or pity; also a term of endearment for a child. Sh.I. He was, as Erty said to Tammy, ‘a faerce-lookin wirm,’ Burgess Sketches (2nd ed.) 33. Cor.1 ‘Poor auld worms,’ spoken of an old man and his wife, both near ninety and disabled; Cor.2 ‘Poor old worms!’ i.e. old people. ‘Poor dear worms!’ i.e. children. 6. A gimlet; a corkscrew. Sc. (A.W.) w.Yks.2 The ‘thread’ of a screw is called the worm. Chs.1 Chs.3, Ken.1 7. A tube used in distilling. Per. Haliburton Furth in Field (1894) 5. Rnf. Worms through which gude whisky is distilled, Mitchell Wee Steeple (1840) 148. Wgt. He was set at the end of the worm, to kep the whiskey as it run from the still, Saxon Gall. Gossip (1878) 358. Ker. The divil a bit would you want of a copper wurrm to git whishky, Bartram Whiteheaded Boy (1898) 189. Hence Wormful, sb. as much whisky as would fill a distilling tube. Gall. Foul fa'... the officers that wad keep a man frae brewin' his decent wormfu', Crockett Standard Bearer (1898) 119. 8. A spiral-formed piece of machinery used in a handloom, &c. w.Yks. (S.P.U.), Lan. (O.S.H.) 9. Obs. or obsol. Toothache. Sc. Ramsay Remin. (ed. 1892) 115. Or.I. Toothache is... called ‘The worm,’ from a notion they have that... [it] is caused by a worm in the tooth or jaw-bone, N. & Q. (1854) 1st S. x. 220. ne.Sc. Gregor Flk-Lore (1881) 48. Lth. (Jam.) 10. The gnawings of hunger. Sc. (Jam.) See Hungry-worm, s.v. Hungry, 1 (8). 11. Sour water from the stomach. Mry. (Jam.) 12. v. To fish with worms. Dev. No 't'is all up wi' wormin', Pulman Sketches (1842) 19, ed. 1853.

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