Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The cylindrical casting of a worm; the slender tubular mass of earth voided by the common earthworm after digestion.
- n. The fossil cast, mold, or track of a worm or some vermiform creature; a helminthite or helmintholite; a worm-burrow.
Examples
“The ball started on a grotesquely wrong line, turned on a rise in the ground, cannoned off a worm-cast and plopped into the tin.”
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917
“Undying coquetry, as Mr. Stevenson so finely remarked, awoke, for the topic preceding the worm-cast had been "the sex.”
“That being settled, the still undecided point about the worm-cast gave rise to a good deal of heat, until, it being discovered that the window was open, and that their voices might easily carry as far as the garden-room, they made malignant rejoinders to each other in whispers.”
“Think I don't know a worm-cast when I see a worm-cast?”
“It was a worm-cast, sir, a cast of a worm, and you had no right to remove it.”
“The Sheldrake (Tadorna) feeds on the sands left uncovered by the tide, and when a worm-cast is discovered, "it begins patting the ground with its feet, dancing as it were, over the hole;" and this makes the worm come to the surface.”
“a bee; a worm-cast is thrown up by a worm, and a nest wreathed by a bird; and a house built by a man, worthily, if he is worthy, and ignobly, if he is ignoble.”
“I can't pretend to be such a specialist as you in those matters," he said, "but you must allow me sufficient power of observation to know a worm-cast when I see it.”
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chained_bear According to the Oxford English Dictionary:
worm-cast, the convoluted mass of mould thrown up by an earthworm on the surface of the soil after passing through the worm's body; so worm-casting; worm-conveyor (see quot. 1910 and CONVEYOR 4b); worm-earth = worm-cast.
I like it better without the hyphen, though. Feb 27, 2007