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. |
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 |
Excito-motor
(a.) Excito-motory |
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 |
Geared
(imp. & p. p.) of Gear |
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. |
Ideo-motor
(a.) Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence. |
Incito-motor
(a.) Inciting to motion |
Inhibitory-motor
(a.) A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue. |
Motor
(n.) One who, or that which, imparts motion |
Motor
(n.) A prime mover |
Motor
(n.) Alt. of Motorial |
Psycho-motor
(a.) Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will. |
Water motor
() A water engine. |
Water motor
() A water wheel |
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 |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| motor control | control of muscles |
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 |
automatic transmission
automatic drive | a transmission that automatically changes the gears according to the speed of the car |
automobile horn
car horn
motor horn
horn hooter | a device on an automobile for making a warning noise |
camper
camping bus
motor home | a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling |
| CD drive | a drive that reads a compact disc and that is connected to an audio system |