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Definition of Blindworms
1. blindworm [n] - See also: blindworm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blindworms
Literary usage of Blindworms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Record of Technical and Secondary Education by National Association for the Promotion of Technical and Secondary Education (Great Britain) (1904)
"The colours of blindworms vary very much, and, as a rule, match their surroundings
... If you are very fortunate one of your blindworms may lay some eggs. ..."
2. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1880)
"... tame blindworms. Living at the BK a the heart of the City, I was obliged и
nat the suburbs for convenient hunting grossis for the small garden slug ..."
3. The Annals of Horticulture (1848)
"... which ran with agility among the pots, and to several of those innocent
blindworms against which the peasants in their ignorance wage sueh dreadful war. ..."
4. Palaestra Logica by William Henry Forbes, Dennis Hird (1904)
"(3) Snakes into poisonous snakes, harmless snakes, and blindworms. ... (3) Includes
blindworms, which are not snakes, and does not include all snakes; ..."
5. The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct by Alexander Sutherland (1898)
"... and so forth, the fertilisation is internal, and the young are often born alive.
Brehm says that the males of the blindworms ..."
6. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1912)
"The Fairies sing' You spotted snakes with double tongue, Thorny hedgehogs, be
not seen; Newts and blindworms, do no wrong ' Come not near our fairy queen. ..."
7. Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Bickers and Son, Boydell Gallery (1878)
"Then they began to sing this song : " You spotted snakes with double tongue,
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen ; Newts and blindworms do no wrong, Come not near ..."
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