3. A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to
the gold. Knight.
Ver`me*ol"o*gist (?), n. One who treats of vermes, or worms; a
helminthologist.
Ver`me*ol"o*gy (?), n. [L. vermes worms + -logy.] (Zoöl.) A discourse
or treatise on worms; that part of zoölogy which treats of worms;
helminthology. [R.]
||Ver"mes (?), n. pl. [L. vermes, pl. of vermis a worm.] (Zoöl.) (a) An
||extensive artificial division of the animal kingdom, including the
||parasitic worms, or helminths, together with the nemerteans,
||annelids, and allied groups. By some writers the branchiopods, the
||bryzoans, and the tunicates are also included. The name was used in a
||still wider sense by Linnæus and his followers. (b) A more restricted
||group, comprising only the helminths and closely allied orders.
||
Ver"me*tid (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any species of vermetus.
||Ver*me"tus (?), n. [NL., from L. vermis worm.] (Zoöl.) Any one of
||many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied
||genera, of the family Vermetidæ. Their shells are regularly spiral
||when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the
||shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.
||
Ver`mi*cel"li (?), n. [It., pl. of vermicello, literally, a little
worm, dim. of verme a worm, L. vermis. See Worm, and cf. Vermicule,
Vermeil.] The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough,
and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender,
wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in
larger tubes, it is called macaroni.
Ver"mi*cide (?), n. [L. vermis a worm + caedere to kill.] A medicine
which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer. Pereira.
Ver*mi"cious (?), a. [L. vermis a worm.] Of or pertaining to worms;
wormy.
Ver*mic"u*lar (?), a. [L. vermiculus a little worm, dim. of vermis a
worm: cf. F. vermiculaire. See Vermicelli.] Of or pertaining to a worm
or worms; resembling a worm; shaped like a worm; especially, resembling
the motion or track of a worm; as, the vermicular, or peristaltic,
motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic. "A twisted form vermicular."
Cowper.
Ver*mic"u*late (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vermiculated (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Vermiculating.] [L. vermiculatus inlaid so as to resemble the tracks
of worms, p. p. of vermiculari to be full of worms, vermiculus a little
worm. See Vermicular.] To form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular
lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if
formed by the motion of worms.
Ver*mic"u*late (?), a. 1. Wormlike in shape; covered with wormlike
elevations; marked with irregular fine lines of color, or with
irregular wavy impressed lines like worm tracks; as, a vermiculate nut.
2. Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical.
"Vermiculate questions." Bacon. "Vermiculate logic." R. Choate.
Ver*mic"u*la`ted (?), a. Made or marked with irregular wavy lines or
impressions; vermiculate.
Vermiculated work, or Vermicular work (Arch.), rustic work so wrought
as to have the appearance of convoluted worms, or of having been eaten
into by, or covered with tracks of, worms. Gwilt.
Ver*mic`u*la"tion (?), n. [L. vermiculatio a being worm-eaten.] 1. The
act or operation of moving in the manner of a worm; continuation of
motion from one part to another; as, the vermiculation, or peristaltic
motion, of the intestines.
2. The act of vermiculating, or forming or inlaying so as to resemble
the motion, track, or work of a worm.