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Definition of Maltworms
1. maltworm [n] - See also: maltworm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maltworms
Literary usage of Maltworms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... spend all their days among good fellows in a tavern or an alehouse, and know
not otherwise how to bestow their time but in drinking; maltworms, ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"... he made it known Fire was an Element that was his own, is duly recorded in
the ' Vade Mecum for maltworms,' Part I. (circa reign of Queen Anne). ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... spend ah1 their days among good fellows in a tavern or an alehouse, and know
not otherwise how to bestow their time but in drinking; maltworms, ..."
4. Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne: Taken from Original Sources by John Ashton (1882)
"An exhaustive catalogue of the taverns in the City is given by Ward in his ' Vade
Mecum for maltworms,' a very curious and now rare book; but it is hardly ..."
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