Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A water annelid. as a naidid.
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Examples
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And then it seemed to him as if the rope had changed in his dream into a great water-worm that came out of the sea, and that twisted itself about him, and held him closer and closer, and grew from big to bigger till the whole of the earth and skies were wound up in it, and the stars themselves were but the shining of the ridges of its skin.
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He had no sooner said that word than the woman made a great water-worm of herself, and made an attack on Finn, and she would have killed him then and there but for Bran being with him.
Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892
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What way could we put a stone or so much as a rose-bush over Nuala and she in the inside of a water-worm might be ploughing its way down to the north of the world?
Three Wonder Plays Lady Gregory 1892
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But there was nothing to be seen but a thin red water-worm wriggling at the bottom, such as you may see any day in a soft-water tub.
Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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