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 Worm, v. t.
 1. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out.
    They find themselves wormed out of all power.   --Swift.
    They . . . wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell.   --Dickens.
 2. To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.  See Worm, n. 5 (b).
 3. To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
    The men assisted the laird in his sporting parties, wormed his dogs, and cut the ears of his terrier puppies.   --Sir W. Scott.
 4. Naut. To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.
    Ropes . . . are generally wormed before they are served.   --Totten.
 To worm one's self into, to enter into gradually by arts and insinuations; as, to worm one's self into favor.
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