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vermicular, a. and n.|vəˈmɪkjʊlə(r)|
[ad. med.L. vermiculāris, f. L. vermiculus: see vermicule. So F. vermiculaire (Paré), Sp., Pg. vermicular, It. vermicolare.]
A. adj.
1. Physiol.
†a. ? Full of vermicules. Obs. rare—1.
1655Culpepper & Cole tr. Riverius vii. iii. 159 Somtimes it [the blood] is intermitting, watery, vermicular, when the Lungs are rotten by too much moisture.
b. = peristaltic a.
Freq. from c 1835.
1672Phil. Trans. VII. 5137 We instance the Vermicular motion of the veins [of plants] when exposed to the air. 1713Cheselden Anat. iii. xii. (1726) 236 After this it [the food] is continually moved by the..vermicular motion of the guts. 1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. Notes 99 In such a structure it is easy to conceive how a vermicular or peristaltic motion of the vessel..must forcibly push forward its contents. 1834Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 9 Its [the stomach's] muscular fibres are calculated to produce a constant undulatory vermicular movement. 1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 668/1 On the supposition that the arteries undergo an undulatory or vermicular contraction. 1881Mivart Cat 181 This form of movement is also spoken of as the vermicular motion of the intestine.
transf.1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 201 Sometimes these muscles are seen working under the skin in vermicular fashion.
2. Having the sinuous shape or form characteristic of a worm; consisting of, characterized by, tortuous outlines or markings; sinuous, wavy.
1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 180 The Vermicular, or Worm-like Gum, is one of the Arabian or Senega Gums. 1753Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 87 This second furrow was..not in a strait line, but in a vermicular direction. 1784Cowper Task i. 30 A generation more refin'd..made three legs four, Gave them a twisted form vermicular. 1815Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xiv. (1816) I. 438 The vermicular shape..of the masses with which the [larval] cases are surrounded. 1860Hook Lives Abps. I. i. 33 His mantle..ornamented with stripes or vermicular figures. 1875Fortnum Maiolica ii. 16 Pottery of Moresque character and ornamentation with vermicular pattern in copper lustre.
b. Bot. (See quot. 1866.)
1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Madder, The [madder] plants which are raised from layers..produce very few of those vermicular roots, which are the only valuable ones. 1849Balfour Man. Bot. Gloss. 641/1. 1866 Treas. Bot. 1210/2 Vermicular, worm-shaped; thick, and almost cylindrical, but bent in different places.
c. Anat. = vermiform a. 3, 3 b.
1843J. G. Wilkinson Swedenborg's Anim. Kingd. I. v. 148 The vermicular appendage is seen on one side of the fundus of the cœcum, resembling a miniature intestine. 1891Cent. Dict. s.v., Vermicular appendix or process.
3. Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, a worm or worms; resembling or like a worm.
1713Derham Phys.-Theol. (1716) 385 In its Vermicular State it is a red Maggot. 1720S. Parker Bibliotheca Bibl. I. 152 Without the Taint of the polluted Vermicular Life. 1752Phil. Trans. XLVII. 449 Several species of vermicular tubes found in the sea. 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) III. 7 Across the body there are several annular divisions, or rather rugæ of the skin, from which the fish should seem to partake of a vermicular nature. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath (1839) 16/1 We may compare the erect spirit of a British legislature with the vermicular servility of..the senate of France. 1892Scottish Leader 24 May 4 Vermicular patience, however, has its limits.
b. Accomplished or made by worms; performed by means of worms. Also fig.
1715tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. II. i. 266 From thence came also Indian Figs, Nuts and Canes, and a vermicular kind of Web made of Silk. 1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 153 The party, which the work stood pledged to oppose through all its vermicular attacks on the glorious fabric of British Institutions. 1887C. Hazard Mem. J. L. Diman xv. 338 The trout here disdain flies. As Lewis phrases it, vermicular fishing is what succeeds.
c. vermicular work: (see quot. and vermiculated ppl. a. 1 c).
1728Chambers Cycl., Vermicular Work,..in Sculpture, a sort of Ornaments used in Rustick Work; consisting of Frets, or Knobs, cut with Points, representing, in some sort, the Tracks made by Worms.
4. Of the nature of a worm. vermicular ascaris, the threadworm, Oxyurus (Ascaris) vermicularis.
1784Cowper Let. 13 Dec., No animal of the vermicular or serpentine kind is crested but the most formidable of all. 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) III. 395 The Vermicular Ascarides are very common in the intestines of children. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) I. 365 For the cure of vermicular ascarides, or maw-worms and bots, these oils have been used in the form of injections.
fig. and transf.1825Examiner 307/2 Fawcett..wanted a little more personal flexibility..; he cannot, at his time of life, be sufficiently vermicular. 1854Lowell Cambridge 30 Y. Ago Prose Wks. 1890 I. 89 Refusing to molest the canker-worms..because we were all vermicular alike. 1872Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) II. 189 Criminals..are partly men, partly vermin; what is human in them you must punish—what is vermicular, abolish.
b. Comprising or consisting of worms.
1886H. F. Lester Under two Fig Trees viii. 117 Their [sc. worms'] minds, like their bodies, must be glutinous; hence they stick to the thin-end theory... There is no sect of ‘bigendians’ in the vermicular fold.
5. Path. Of diseases: Due to, caused by, intestinal worms.
1794R. J. Sulivan View Nat. I. 237 Hence the probable utility of fixed air in vermicular diseases. a1822Shelley Devil Pr. Wks. 1880 II. 400 Persons subject to vermicular and animalcular diseases.
†B. n. = vermicule. Obs. rare.
1690R. Clark Vermiculars Destroyed 9 A sort of invisible Worms or Vermiculars. Ibid. 11 The Putrefaction..is degenerated into innumerable Vermiculars.
Hence verˈmicularly adv.
1812New Bot. Gard. I. 84 The seeds..vermicularly wrinkled. |