Army worm
() A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm. |
Army worm
() The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order. See Cotton worm, under Cotton. |
Clip
(v. t.) To embrace, hence |
Clip
(v. t.) To cut off |
Clip
(v. t.) To curtail |
Clip
(v. i.) To move swiftly |
Clip
(n.) An embrace. |
Clip
(n.) A cutting |
Clip
(n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep |
Clip
(n.) A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc. |
Clip
(n.) An embracing strap for holding parts together |
Clip
(n.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof |
Clip
(n.) A blow or stroke with the hand |
Drive
(v. t.) To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one |
Drive
(v. t.) To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them |
Drive
(v. t.) To urge, impel, or hurry forward |
Drive
(v. t.) To carry or |
Drive
(v. t.) To clear, by forcing away what is contained. |
Drive
(v. t.) To dig Horizontally |
Drive
(v. t.) To pass away |
Drive
(v. i.) To rush and press with violence |
Drive
(v. i.) To be forced along |
Drive
(v. i.) To go by carriage |
Drive
(v. i.) To press forward |
Drive
(v. i.) To distrain for rent. |
Drive
(p. p.) Driven. |
Drive
(n.) The act of driving |
Drive
(n.) A place suitable or agreeable for driving |
Drive
(n.) Violent or rapid motion |
Drive
(n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift. |
Drive
(n.) A collection of objects that are driven |
Full-drive
(adv.) With full speed. |
Galley-worm
(n.) A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides |
Grugru worm
() The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy. |
Hose
(pl. ) of Hose |
Hose
(n.) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee. |
Hose
(n.) Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs |
Hose
(n.) A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine. |
Worm
(n.) A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. |
Worm
(n.) Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals |
Worm
(n.) Any helminth |
Worm
(n.) Any annelid. |
Worm
(n.) An insect larva. |
Worm
(n.) Same as Vermes. |
Worm
(n.) An internal tormentor |
Worm
(n.) A being debased and despised. |
Worm
(n.) Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm |
Worm
(n.) The thread of a screw. |
Worm
(n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms. |
Worm
(n.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog |
drive thrust
driving force | the act of applying force to propel something, after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off |
liner
line drive | (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter, the batter hit a liner to the shortstop |
line-drive single
line single | a single resulting from a line drive |
line-drive double
line double | a double resulting from a line drive |
line-drive triple
line triple | a triple resulting from a line drive |
| clip | a sharp slanting blow, he gave me a clip on the ear |
| drive-by killing | homicide committed by shooting from a moving automobile |
| drive-by shooting | shooting someone from a car as it is driven past the victim |
drive
ride | a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile), he took the family for a drive in his new car |
| cattle drive | driving a bovine herd (as cows or bulls or steers) |
| drive | the act of driving a herd of animals overland |
clip
clipping
snip | the act of clipping or snipping |
| drive | (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) |
| forehand drive | (sports) hard straight return made on the forehand side (as in tennis or badminton or squash) |
| backhand drive | a hard straight return made on the backhand side |
| drive driving | hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver, he sliced his drive out of bounds |
campaign cause crusade
drive movement effort | a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end, he supported populist campaigns, they worked in the cause of world peace, the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant, the movement to end slavery, contributed to the war effort |
fundaising campaign
fundaising drive
fundaising effort | a campaign to raise money for some cause |
slender salamander
worm salamander | any of several small slim salamanders of the Pacific coast of the United States |
| worm lizard | a lizard of the genus Amphisbaena, harmless wormlike limbless lizard of warm or tropical regions having concealed eyes and ears and a short blunt tail |
thunder snake
worm snake Carphophis amoenus | small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States |
blind snake
worm snake | wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes |
tongue worm
pentastomid | wormlike arthropod having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth, parasitic in nasal sinuses of mammals |
| worm family | a family of worms |
| worm genus | a genus of worms |
| worm | any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes, also many insect larvae |
helminth
parasitic worm | worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes |
acanthocephalan
spiny-headed worm | any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
| bladder worm | encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm |
fluke
trematode
trematode worm | parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host |
ribbon worm
nemertean
nemertine
proboscis worm | soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract |
beard worm
pogonophoran | slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering, lives on the deep ocean bottom |
nematode
nematode worm
roundworm | unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends, mostly free-living but some are parasitic |
vinegar eel
vinegar worm
Anguillula aceti
Turbatrix aceti | minute eelworm that feeds on organisms that cause fermentation in e.g. vinegar |
Guinea worm
Dracunculus medinensis | parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates |
annelid
annelid worm
segmented worm | worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally |
oligochaete
oligochaete worm | hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body |
a earthworm
angleworm
fishworm
fishing worm
wiggler nightwalker
nightcrawler
crawler
dew worm
red worm | terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil, often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet, used as bait by anglers |
polychaete
polychete
polychaete worm
polychete worm | chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles |
onychophoran
velvet worm
peripatus | any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms |
apple maggot
railroad worm
Rhagoletis pomonella | larvae bore into and feed on apples |
measuring worm
inchworm
looper | small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments, mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae |
armyworm army worm
Pseudaletia unipuncta | noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain |
tobacco hornworm
tomato worm
Manduca sexta | large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tobacco and related plants, similar to tomato hornworm |
tomato hornworm
potato worm
Manduca quinquemaculata | large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tomato and potato plants, similar to tobacco hornworm |
peanut worm
sipunculid | small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body giving the appearance of a peanut |
| worm fish | poorly known family of small tropical shallow-water fishes related to gobies |
| airline air hose | a hose that carries air under pressure |
automatic transmission
automatic drive | a transmission that automatically changes the gears according to the speed of the car |
bicycle clip
trouser clip | a clip worn around a cyclist's ankles that keeps trousers from becoming caught in the bicycle chain |