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422 WORM
WORM. — Baoit, baoite^ baoiteag, beastag, beist-da-liunn (tape),
biasdag, biasd-da-liunn (taj)e), biastag, ])iathaiiine, biathairne, bob,
boilg-bhiasd (bell}), boireal (borer), botiis, bride (ring), bratag
(caterpillar), brutag (pahner), bualagan-timehioll (ring), burrais,
burras, burruis ; Caideag (earth), caiteas, catus (caddis), car tan
(Hesh), cnamhag, cnoimheag, cnomh (Ir.), cnuinih, cnuiv (Ir.),
cnuimh-goile (maw), cnuimh-lobhta (palmer), connough (Ir.),
corr or corra- chagailte (fire), cruimh, crumh, cuairt- dhurrag
or a chuairt - dhurrag (ring), cuil' or cuileag shniomhan or
shionnachan (glow) ; Dairbh, daol, daolag, darb, dathag (body),
deal-mara or mhara (skate), dian or diane, dirb, doirb, doirbeag,
droch (wood), durrag (caddis), durrag-chomhlaich (door or house),
durrag-feola (flesh) ; Fealan, feoil-chnoidheag or chnumhag,
feursann (cattle), fideag (ring), fiolan, fiolar, fri, fride, frideag (ring) ;
Geal' or gealla-tholl (bot), giun, goimh ; Kerog (Ir.) (.'' Ciarag) ;
Lamprag, lamprog (Ir.), leus-chnuimh (glow); Maotag (cabbage-
worm), martlan (maw-belly), moil (black), moireal (borer), mudag
(maw); Peist, piast (Ir.), plaigh-shlat (blind or slow); Seireacan,
seiteacan, sigearan, sigirean, siod-chnuimh, sitireun (silk) ; Teine-
de (ring), torain, torair (borer); Uirchir (chir).
Anggwyltwachys (Devon), angle-dog or twitch (large earth —
Devon), anguelle (hawk) ; Badger-snail (large), bawe (bait —
Stevenson), belly, black (beetle — Cornw.), blind, body, bond, bot,
bowd, brittling (straw), brandling, brannel (caterpillar), broad
maw ; Caddis, cadew, caneca, canker, cannisca (wood), caterpillar,
cattle, chackie-mill (wood), chir, coach-and-horses, codbait (caddis),
connough, corn, craman, crammeal, crammin, cranet (red), cruimh-
gheala (glow-worm), cut (slow — North) ; Door or house, dung-hill ;
Eace (large), earth, esses (large); Fire (mythical), flesh, flook,
fluder (liver), free (hand) ; Glare, glaze (glow) glisigenda-wibba
(A. S.), globerde (glow), glow, glow-bason, glyde, gogar (bait),
gorrom, grou-grou (corn-grub) ; Half-palmer, horse ; Ingle-dog
(large earth) ; Kenack ; Lady's lap-dog (hop), lea-low (glow), liver,
lob, lug, lumbrike, lurg, lurgan (sea) ; Mad (North), maliscale,
mascale (palmer), maw, meel-cave (foot), miles (gut), muUiarten
(toe) ; Nescock, nutre ; Palmer ; Red, ring, round gut ; Sea-low
(glow), shromp (dung), silk, sla-wyrm (A. S.), slick, slorry (blind —
Kent), slow, storey ; Tape, teasing or tesing (ring), torrie, torrie
(crane), torris, trunchon (Pulsgrave) ; Warbot (Pulsgrave), weevil,
wheal, wood, wurt (canker).
From Teutonic type " wormi," a worm, snake ; or from the Latin
veryuis. An Irish term for worm is "crumh-cuar," which literally
means the twisted or twisting, crooked or perverse one. " Lamprog,"
the glow-worm, comes from "lam," shining. Fealan or fiolan,
nescock, is a little worm about half an inch in length and the
thickness of a goose-quill, having numerous little feet, found in
head and neck (Skye), according to Martin. In a note to