gorm

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They's gorming,--_they won't do nothin' without a leader To gorm, then, is to err when there is no leader.

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  • Do most people have gorm, to one degree or another? —  The Word Detective
  • — David H., via the Internet Well, yes , most people do have a sizable pile of gorm, and we use it every day. —  The Word Detective
  • Miss Wade wore three cardigans and a cairn-gorm brooch. —  Death In Ecstasy - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 04: 1936
  • During the rutting season, which falls in late autumn, it sometimes happens that the reindeer attacks the hunter The Spitzbergen reindeer is not tormented, like the reindeer in Lapland and on Novaya Zemlya, by "gorm" (inch-long larvć of a fly, which are developed under the animal's skin). —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
  • Even gorm (the large, fully developed, fat larva of the reindeer fly, Oestrus tarandi_) is pressed out of the skin of the reindeer and eaten, as well as the full-grown reindeer fly Some more of the superstitious traits which we observed among the Chukches may here be stated. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
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