Air hole
() A hole to admit or discharge air |
Air hole
() A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air |
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. |
Black hole
() A dungeon or dark cell in a prison |
Cat-hole
(n.) One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed. |
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. |
Hand-hole
(n.) A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc. |
Hole
(a.) Whole. |
Hole
(n.) A hollow place or cavity |
Hole
(n.) An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal |
Hole
(n.) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in |
Hole
(n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball. |
Hole
(v. i.) To go or get into a hole. |
Peeping hole
() See Peephole. |
Pit-hole
(n.) A pit |
Sight-hole
(n.) A hole for looking through |
Teaze-hole
(n.) The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced. |
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 |
Worm
(n.) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still. |
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. |
Worm
(v. i.) To work slowly, gradually, and secretly. |
Worm
(v. t.) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means |
Worm
(v. t.) To clean by means of a worm |
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. |
Worm
(n.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable |
Worm-eaten
(a.) Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms |
Worm-eaten
(a.) Worn-out |
Worm-shaped
(a.) Shaped like a worm |
Worm-shell
(n.) Any species of Vermetus. |
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 |
| air hole | a hole that allows the passage of air |
| Black Hole of Calcutta | a dungeon ( feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula, the next morning only were still alive |
bore
bore-hole
drill hole | a hole or passage made by a drill, usually made for exploratory purposes |
buttonhole
button hole | a hole through which buttons are pushed |
| ear hole | a hole (as in a helmet) for sound to reach the ears |
| finger hole | a hole for inserting a finger |
| finger hole | one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument, pitch changes when a finger covers it |
foxhole
fox hole | a small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire |
| funk hole | dugout as a place of safe retreat (when in a funk) |
glory hole
lazaretto | a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship |
| hole | an opening deliberately made in or through something |
| hole golf hole | one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course, he played holes |
| hole card | (poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown |
| lubber's hole | hole in a platform on a mast through which a sailor can climb without going out on the shrouds |
| mouth hole | a hole (as in a ski mask) for the mouth |
| nail hole | a hole left after a nail is removed |
posthole
post hole | a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post |
posthole digger
post-hole digger | a shovel used to sink postholes |
| shot hole | drill hole for a charge of an explosive |
| smoke hole | a vent (as in a roof) for smoke to escape |
| sound hole | a hole in a soundboard (as of a violin) designed to resonate with the tones |