blind-wormn.
/ˈblʌɪndwəːm/ Zoology.
A reptile ( Anguis fragilis) also called Slow-worm. (Formerly applied also to the Adder.)
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Anguidae > anguis fragilis (slow-worm or blindworm)
slow-wormOE
blind-wormc1450
hagworm?c1475
death adder1608
addera1616
deaf adder1758
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > genus Vipera > vipera berus (common viper)
adderOE
boske addre1382
blind-wormc1450
hagworm?c1475
colubrec1480
viper1526
long-worm1578
viper-worm1605
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 706 Hec scutula, a blyndworme.
c1480 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 766 Idrus, idra, matrix, a blynd-wurme.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 11 Newts and blindewormes do no wrong. View more context for this quotation
1712 H. Sloane in Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 491 We caused a Whelp to be bit..by a Blind-Worm.
1763 Brit. Mag. 4 352 He was stung by a blind-worm, for so they call them here.
1772 T. Pennant Tours Scotl. (1774) 240 Any kind of serpent except the harmless blind worm.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 103 There the slow blind-worm left his slime.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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