Vermicelli means, little worms.

And so the time beguile; And if the moon doth hide her head, The glow-worm lights us home to bed.

All this we can accept as a settled fact, and also any description of the way in which the parasitic worms attach themselves to the throats of the birds, and cause the peculiar gaping of the mouth which gives the name to the disease.

Then he brings forth a familyof tiny worms quite unlike himself, little creatures called rediae, which soon give birth to families of young rediae.

The whole group of the Thousand Islands, and indeed the greater part of all those whose surfaces are flat, in the neighbourhood of the equator, owe their origin to the labours of that order of marine worms which Linnaeus has arranged under the name of Zoophyta.

The invisible worm.

If King Manasseh, sunk in depth of sin, With plaints and tears recovered grace and crown, A worthless worm some mild regard may win, And lowly creep where flying threw it down.

William Cowper. Turn, turn thy hasty foot aside, Nor crush that helpless worm!

On the one side is the third generation idle richarrogant and parasitical, and on the other, the actual producer, economically helpless and denied access to the means of production unless he "beg his lordly fellow worm to give him leave to toil," as Robert Burns has it.

No Will-o'-th'-Wisp mislight thee, Nor snake or slow-worm bite thee; But on, on thy way, Not making a stay, Since ghost there's none to affright thee.

When we see a foul and noxious worm, to tread it under foot is a virtuous act.

Then they began to sing this song: You spotted snakes with double tongue, Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen; Newts and blind-worms do no wrong, Come not near our Fairy Queen.

I will unfold a tale!I will show thee to the world for what thou art; and all the men that live, shall confess my truth!Didst thou imagine that I was altogether passive, a mere worm, organised to feel sensations of pain, but no emotion of resentment?

The plowboy shouted in the sun, and in the purple new- turned furrows flocks of birds hunted for fat worms.

Then surfeit with thy exhalations speedily; For all earth's venomous infecting worms Have belch'd their several poisons on the fields, Mixing their simples in thy compound draught.

There is a round-worm which at times infests the dog's bladder, and may cause occlusion of the urethra; a whip-worm inhabiting the caecum; another may occupy a position in the mucous membrane of the stomach; some infest the blood, and others the eye.

The fair Princess Margaret, daughter of the King of Bamburgh was turned into a "laidly worm" (loathly or loathsome serpent) by her wicked stepmother, who was jealous of the lovely maid.

" He sighed, still smarting at the memory of a gibe; then he recited the following in an effective monotone: "Oh! scorn not the humble worm, proud bird, As you sing i' the top o' the tree; Though doomed to squirm i' the ground, unheard.

To see a miserable worm creep to the brink of this falling world of waters, and watch the trembling of its own petty bosom, and fancy that this is made alone, to act upon him excitesderision?No,pity.

Flying about at night, he is guided to his mate by the light she puts forth; and it is a peculiar characteristic of the male glow-worm, that his eyes are so placed that he is unable to view any object that is not immediately beneath him.

Within doth eat the silly worm; Even so a mind in envy rolled Always within it self doth burn.

Yea, for such wry-necks all the world's a lawn To peek and peer and pounce a sinful worm; The fatter, the more luscious.

The bird that tears that prostrate form Hath only robb'd the meaner worm.

In many ferns the sporangia are surrounded in whole or in part by a vertical, elastic ring (annulus) reminding one of a small, brown worm closely coiled (Fig. 4).

The leprous corpse, touched by this spirit tender, Exhales itself in flowers of gentle breath; Like incarnations of the stars, when splendour Is changed to fragrance, they illumine death, And mock the merry worm that wakes beneath.