worm

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
• The thread of a screw
• to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
• any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes
• a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network
• screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
• A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like
• Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals
• Any helminth
• Any annelid
• An insect larva
• An internal tormentor
• A being debased and despised
• Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
• A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms
• A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog
• The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space
• A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs
• To work slowly, gradually, and secretly
• To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means
• To clean by means of a worm
• 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
• To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Germany in Nordrhein-Westfalen

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