Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A nematoid worm, Gordius, parasitic in insects in its early stages and frequently fouud in damp places or in pools when mature. Also known as hairworm and horsehair-snake, from the popular superstition that it is a hair that has metamorphosed into a worm.
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Examples
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The hair-snake was still sleeping and had nothing to offer.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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The hair-snake was still sleeping and had nothing to offer.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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The hair-snake was still sleeping and had nothing to offer.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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He changed himself into a hair-snake, was scooped up in her bucket, and drunk by the Manito, who soon after was dead.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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She handed him the water containing the hair-snake, which he drank, with the snake, and soon after was a dead Manito.
The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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It rooved about, folded and unfolded itself, showed sensibility when touched, and had become in fact that singular animal, of which naturalists, as far as I knovr, hâve taken no notice; but which f armers know well by the name hair-snake. '
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