| 单词 | the worm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe worm a. The larva of an insect; a maggot, grub, or caterpillar, esp. one that feeds on and destroys flesh, fruit, leaves, cereals, textile fabrics, and the like. Also collective the worm, as a destructive pest.With defining term prefixed, as book, caddis, canker, case, †cawel, horn, measuring, palmer, red, rook, silk, slug, span, tobacco, whirl, white, wire: see these words. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva niteOE wormOE grubc1420 canker1440 caterpillarc1440 cankerworm1530 mad1573 bug1594 blote1657 vermicle1657 hexapod1668 grub-worm1752 truffle-worm1753 larva1768 larve1822 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > thought to be generated by decay or maggot wormOE matheOE maddocka1250 mawka1425 maggot?a1475 vermicular?1691 vermiculus1694 vermicule1713 OE Riddle 47 3 Me þæt þuhte wrætlicu wyrd..þæt se wyrm forswealg wera gied sumes. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 110 Flesch wið uten salt gedereð wurmes..& roteð..sone. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10045 Þo grene corn in somer ssolde curne, To foule wormes muchedel þe eres gonne turne. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollemache MS.) (1495) xvii. cxiv In somer þe tender leues þerof beþ eten with smal schagges, and with oþer wormes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6612 Þai fand bot wormes creuland emid. 1415 T. Hoccleve To Sir J. Oldcastle 466 The worm for to sleen in the pesecod. c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 965 Now pike out moughthes, attercoppes, wormes, And butterflie whos thost engendring worm is. ?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 392 The Chaumbres schal haue al the clothes in her warde,..makyng, repayryng, and kepyng them from wormes. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lx. 522 The small wormes that are found within the knoppes or heades of Teaselles. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 78 The small Wormes of the Drones. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iv. 111 She..let concealment like a worme i'th budde Feede on her damaske cheeke. View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Milton Arcades in Poems 54 Or what the cross dire-looking Planet smites, Or hurtfull Worm with canker'd venom bites. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 230 Books are subject among other Chances to fire, and the Worme. 1677 Rector's Bk. Clayworth (1910) 35 I observed worms in wheat and Rye. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 478 The Worm that gnaws the ripening Fruit. 1797 in A. Young Agric. Suffolk 39 Wheat never plants kindly after a thin crop of clover; but is subject to the worm, and to be root fallen. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 104 The crawling Worm that turns a Summer-Fly. 1847 R. W. Emerson Shakespeare in Wks. (1906) I. 358 They have left..no file of old yellow accounts to decompose in damp and worms. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xli. 369 The worms have eaten the cloth a good deal. 1857 C. Kingsley Lett. (1877) II. 41 The office of worms in this world is to prevent, while they seem to accelerate, putrefaction. 1884 J. Phin Dict. Apiculture 78 When worms are spoken of by the ordinary beekeeper, the larvæ of the bee~moth are almost always meant. 1886 C. G. W. Lock Tobacco 55 Worms, in the American phraseology, here generally known as caterpillars, are the bête noire of the tobacco grower. the worm 12. the worm: formerly a popular name for various ailments supposed to be caused by the working of a ‘worm’, or resulting in a worm-shaped tumour or growth. extracted from wormn.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in stomach or bowels womb achea1398 gnawing1398 torsionc1425 colicc1440 frettingc1440 the wormc1500 wringc1500 griping1526 wresting?1543 wringing?1550 bellyache1552 torment1578 colic passion1586 wind-colic1593 belly-thrawe1595 belly-grinding1597 fret1600 gripe1601 wrenching1607 mulligrubsa1625 bellywarka1652 torminaa1655 efferation1684 stomach-ache1763 gastrodynia1804 guts-ache1818 stony colic1822 wame-ill1829 gastralgia1834 tummy ache1926 c1500 Roule's Cursing 57 in Maitland Fo. (1919) 163 The worme, the wareit vedumfa [= wedenonfa']. c1633 A. Johnston Diary (1911) I. 12 That Sunday..schoe took the worme at midnight, begoud to cast, and so contineued al Mononday. 1654 A. Johnston Diary (1919) II. 275 I heard after sermon of M. W. G. haiving the worme, and not being able to com to the kirk al the Saboth. b. Toothache. Scottish ? Obsolete.Cf. Shakespeare Much Ado iii. ii. 25. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in teeth toothache1377 teeth-workc1440 tooth-warkc1480 the worma1583 tooth-pain?1593 odontalgy1651 odontalgia1706 tooth-aching1709 tooth-edge1794 teeth-ache1890 a1583 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Tullibard. MS.) 301 The choikis, the charbunkill, with þe wormis in thy cheikis. a1646 D. Wedderburn Vocabula (1685) 20 Laborat dolore dentium, he hath the worm. 1881 W. Gregor Notes Folk-lore N.-E. Scotl. x. 48 It was a common belief that toothache was caused by a worm at the root of the tooth, and toothache was often simply called ‘the worm’. 1890 J. Service Thir Notandums vii. 44 The auld man was girnin' wi' the worm. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess aposteme1340 felon1340 postumea1398 exiturea1400 imposthumec1400 buboc1425 impostumation1524 ancome1538 meliceris1562 undimy1562 rising1568 abscess1574 abscession1583 nail1600 the worm1607 apostematea1627 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 432 If a horse do labor in what kind of impostume which they vulgarly call the worme, either any where as well as in the nose, they do open the skin with a searirg [read searing] yron. < as lemmas |
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