Worm

1. n. A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
2. n. A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
3. n. Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
4. n. Any helminth; an entozoon.
5. n. Any annelid.
6. n. An insect larva.
7. n. Same as Vermes.
8. n. An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
9. n. A being debased and despised.
10. n. Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
11. 1n. 1 A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
12. 1n. 1 A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.