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▪ I. ˈworming, vbl. n.
[f. worm v. + -ing1.]
1. a. Extraction of the ‘worm’ or lytta from a dog's tongue.
1575Turberv. Faulconrie 371 The worming doth discharge the Spanell of madnesse and frenesie. 1654C. Wase Gratius' Cyneget. Illustr. 13 To prevent Madnesse by Worming. 1818Sporting Mag. II. 31 Worming..is most efficatious.
b. slang. (See quot.)
1859Slang Dict., Worming, removing the beard of an oyster or muscle.
2. a. The action of ridding (plants, etc.) of ‘worms’ or grubs.
1641Milton Animadv. Remonstr. Def. 52 [He] challenges as his right..the clipping of every bush, the weeding and worming of every bed. 1864R. L. De Coin Cotton & Tobacco 274 The worming must continue, after the hoeing is done, until the plants are ripe for cutting.
b. Treatment administered to rid an animal of parasitic worms.
1936J. Z. Rine Dog Owner's Man. vi. 99 All worming may prove more effective if preceded by a twenty-four-hour diet of buttermilk. 1947New Biol. III. 69 The cost and labour of rounding them [sc. sheep] up for this periodical ‘worming’ may be..great. 1981Times 22 May 3/2 Worker cats needed neutering, vaccinating, worming, regular feeding.
3.
†a. The practice of a spy or informer. (In quot. attrib.) Obs.
1607Beaum. & Fl. Woman-Hater iii. iii, Has not many men been raised from this worming trade?
b. The use of insidious methods of progress or advancement.
1916Nineteenth Cent. Nov. 1074 In the Two Americas,..Deutschtum has, by silent worming, won enormous power all the way from Chicago to the Chilean coast.
4. Angling with worms as bait.
1842G. P. R. Pulman Rustic Sk. 48 Zo 't's all up wi' wormin', an' huomward da trot Th' angler, wull pleyz'd wi' th' spoort e've a-got. 1910Encycl. Brit. II. 28/1 The other methods of taking trout..are spinning, live-baiting and worming. 1922Blackw. Mag. Jan. 39/1 When I showed him how to cast the worm up-stream,..he was delighted with this, to him, novel method of worming.
5. The action of catching worms (for bait).
1881Athenæum 30 Apr. 594/2 Worming is an art; the worms are very cunning, and apt to pop back into their holes if the hunter treads heavily.
6. a. Naut. The process of winding spun-yarn round a rope or cable, so as to fill up the spiral furrows between the strands (cf. worm v. 13). Also concr., the yarn or line thus used as a filling.
1644H. Manwayring Sea-mans Dict. 116 Worming is the laying of a small-roape, or line alongst, betwixt the strands of a cabell or hawser. 1711W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 120 Lanyards, Ratling, Worming. 1791Smeaton Edystone L. (1793) §137 Not only the service and worming were cut, but the cable itself was..injured by the sharpness of the rocks. 1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 65 Worming is made of 2 or 3 strands. c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 27 The worming is put in the lay. 1897F. T. Bullen Cruise Cachalot 84 A favourite design is to carve the bone into the similitude of a rope, with ‘worming’ of smaller line along its lays.
b. transf. The action of worming electric cables; also concr., material used for this.
1909Coyle & Howe Electric Cables ii. 112 The specific gravity of the worming jute. 1949Proc. Inst. Electr. Engineers XCVI. ii. 633/1 Would the author indicate..in what sizes additional worming or padding is required to allow the inclusion of the 0.0225-in2 conductor and yet produce a good cable design? 1962P. Dunsheath Hist. Elect. Engin. xvi. 259 Much attention was given to such refinements as..construction of wormings.
7. A worm-like incrustation.
1903Conrad & Hueffer Romance v. iii. 425, I knew the feel of every little worming of rust on the iron candlestick.
8. Comb. worming machine (for making screw-threads); worming-pot, a utensil for forming worm-like ornaments on stoneware.
1866J. Chamberlain in B'ham & Midl. Hardware Distr. 607 They [sc. screw-blanks] are next carried to the *worming machine.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 1017 Common stoneware is coloured by means of two kinds of apparatus; the one called the blowing-pot, the other the *worming-pot.
▪ II. ˈworming, ppl. a.
[f. worm v. + -ing2.]
Winding, twisting; fig. working or advancing insidiously or tortuously.
1626B. Jonson Staple of Newes v. ii, I ha' you in a purse⁓net Good Master Picklocke, wi' your worming braine, And wrigling ingine-head of maintenance. 1650Fuller Pisgah iii. v. 369 But Saint Hierome will have them [sc. windows] lattised, Lignis interrasilibus, et vermiculatis, with worming or winding splinters of shaved wood. a1764Lloyd Charity Poet. Wks. 1774 II. 156 Your sly, sneaking, worming souls, Whom Friendship scorns, and Fear controuls. 1835W. G. Simms Yemassee i. 14 (Funk) Around the fields the negro piles slowly the worming and ungraceful fence. |