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vermiculate


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Vermiculate  \Ver*mic"u*late\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p. 
  {Vermiculated};  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Vermiculating}.]  [L. 
  vermiculatus  inlaid  so  as  to  resemble  the  tracks  of  worms,  p. 
  p.  of  vermiculari  to  be  full  of  worms,  vermiculus  a  little 
  worm.  See  {Vermicular}.] 
  To  form  or  work  as  by  inlaying,  with  irregular  lines  or 
  impressions  resembling  the  tracks  of  worms,  or  appearing  as 
  if  formed  by  the  motion  of  worms. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Vermiculate  \Ver*mic"u*late\,  a. 
  1.  Wormlike  in  shape;  covered  with  wormlike  elevations; 
  marked  with  irregular  fine  lines  of  color,  or  with 
  irregular  wavy  impressed  lines  like  worm  tracks;  as  a 
  vermiculate  nut. 
 
  2.  Crawling  or  creeping  like  a  worm;  hence  insinuating; 
  sophistical.  ``Vermiculate  questions.''  --Bacon. 
  ``Vermiculate  logic.''  --R.  Choate. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  vermiculate 
  adj  1:  eaten  (or  as  if  eaten)  by  worms  [syn:  {worm-eaten},  {wormy}] 
  2:  decorated  with  wormlike  tracery  or  markings;  "vermicular  (or 
  vermiculated)  stonework"  [syn:  {vermicular},  {vermiculated}] 




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