What is the name meaning of WORM. Phrases containing WORM
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Irish
Irish name FUAMNACH means "jealous." In mythology, this is the name of the first wife of Midir, lord of the underworld. She is a witch goddess who turns Midir's second wife, the heroine ÉtaÃn, into a pool of water, then a worm, and finally a beautiful butterfly.Â
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English
English : possibly a variant of Warman.
Biblical
worm; grub; scarlet
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English
English : of uncertain origin; possibly a topographic name for someone who lived where wormwood (Artemesia absinthium) grew, Middle English wormod, or a metonymic occupational name for a herbalist. In the Middle Ages wormwood was variously used as a tonic and vermifuge, in brewing ale, and to protect clothes and linen from moths and fleas.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from Wormald in West Yorkshire or Wormhill in Derbyshire, which is named from an Old English personal name Wyra + hyll ‘hill’.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire, recorded in Domesday Book as Wermetune ‘estate (Old English tūn) associated with a man called Wyrma’, and unattested Old English personal name.
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English
English : topographic name from the dialect term wormstall ‘summer cattle shelter against gadflies’ (from an unattested Old English wyrm-stall).
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Hindu, Indian
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German and Danish
German and Danish : variant of Wurm.English : nickname from Middle English wurm ‘serpent’, ‘dragon’ (Old English wyrm).
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One Kind of Worms
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Biblical
Worm, grub, scarlet.
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a.
Penetrated by worms; injured by worms; worm-eaten; as, wormed timber.
n.
A burrow made by a worm.
n.
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.
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of Worm
superl.
Like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling.
a.
Shaped like a worm; /hick and almost cylindrical, but variously curved or bent; as, a worm-shaped root.
n.
Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines.
a.
Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as, worm-eaten timber.
superl.
Containing a worm; abounding with worms.
v. t.
To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).
n.
See Wormil.
a.
Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish anatomist.
n.
Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
n.
A little worm.
n.
See Wormil.
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of Worm
n.
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.