Anthelmintic (a.) Good against intestinal worms. |
Anthelmintic (n.) An anthelmintic remedy. |
Anti () A prefix meaning against, opposite or opposed to, contrary, or in place of |
Anti-American (a.) Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. |
Anti-federalist (n.) One of party opposed to a federative government |
Anti-Gallican (a.) Opposed to what is Gallic or French. |
Anti-trade (n.) A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind. |
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. |
Drug (v. i.) To drudge |
Drug (n.) A drudge (?). |
Drug (n.) Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines |
Drug (n.) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable |
Drug (v. i.) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. |
Drug (v. t.) To affect or season with drugs or ingredients |
Drug (v. t.) To tincture with something offensive or injurious. |
Drug (v. t.) To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs. |
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. |
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. |
drug bust drugs bust | seizure of illegal drugs by the police |
withdrawal drug withdrawal | the termination of drug taking |
iontophoresis ionic medication iontotherapy electromotive drug administration EMDA | therapy that uses a local electric current to introduce the ions of a medicine into the tissues |
anti-takeover defense | resistance to or defense against a hostile takeover |
anti-war movement | a campaign against entering or continuing a war |
substance abuse drug abuse habit | excessive use of drugs |
drug traffic drug trafficking narcotraffic | traffic in illegal drugs |
drug war | conflict between law enforcement and those who deal in illegal drugs |
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 |
abortifacient aborticide abortion-inducing drug | a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion |
Adam ecstasy XTC go disco biscuit cristal X hug drug | street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine |
adrenergic adrenergic drug | drug that has the effects of epinephrine |
antiarrhythmic antiarrhythmic drug antiarrhythmic medication | a drug used to treat an abnormal heart rhythm |
antibacterial antibacterial drug bactericide | any drug that destroys bacteria or inhibits their growth |
antibiotic antibiotic drug | a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections, when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs |
anticholinergic anticholinergic drug | a substance that opposes or blocks the action of acetylcholine |
anticonvulsant anticonvulsant drug antiepileptic antiepileptic drug | a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy) |
antidepressant antidepressant drug | any of a class of drugs used to treat depression, often have undesirable side effects |
antidiabetic antidiabetic drug | a drug used to treat diabetes mellitus |
antidiarrheal antidiarrheal drug | a drug used to control or stop diarrhea |
antidiuretic antidiuretic drug | a drug that limits the formation of urine |
antiemetic antiemetic drug | a drug that prevents or alleviates nausea and vomiting |