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Definition of worm : 1. A being debased and despised.
2. A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta.
3. A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
4. 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 gearing, below.
5. A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
6. An insect larva.
7. An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
8. Any annelid.
9. Any helminth; an entozoon.
10. 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.
11. Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
12. Same as Vermes.
13. The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still.
14. The thread of a screw.
15. To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 ( b).
16. To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
17. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; - often followed by out.
18. To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.
19. To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.

Synonyms:

parasite, plant louse, twist, grub, squiggle, wriggle, foist, enter, bird louse, sneak, wrestle, convolute, scum, sophisticate, creep, brute, sucking louse, turn, larva, infection, rick, riffraff, fraud, scoundrel, louse, slide, wangle, devil, distort, pervert, bend, wiggle, curve, sprain, twist around, move, work, dirt ball, infiltrate, wretch, flex, repetition, edge, demon, wrench, insect, wreathe, maggot, squirm, finesse, swindler, writhe, engineer, leech, deform, finagle, twine, hypocrite, wind, crawl, waggle, sharper, snake, beggar, reprobate, trickster, biting louse, get, make, insinuate, wrick

Usage examples:

• I saw him kick a worm clear through the fence!" - "Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin", Ben Field.
• She walked slowly down the nave and up the dusty, worm- eaten flight of stairs into the cobwebby regions above. - "The Head Girl at the Gables", Angela Brazil.
• We next directed our attention to the moment when a male worm would be hatched. - "New observations on the natural history of bees", Francis Huber.