[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Zoology.any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms , roundworms ,acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.", "(loosely) any of numerous small creeping animals with more or less slender, elongated bodies, and without limbs or with very short ones, including individuals of widely differing kinds, as earthworms, tapeworms ,insect larvae, and adult forms of some insects.", "something resembling or suggesting a worm in appearance, movement, etc.", "Informal.a groveling, abject, or contemptible person.", "the spiral pipe in which the vapor is condensed in a still.", "(not in technical use) screw thread(def1) screw thread(def1).", "screw conveyor screw conveyor.", "Also calledworm screw.a rotating cylinder or shaft, cut with one or more helical threads, that engages with and drives a worm wheel worm wheel.", "something that penetrates, injures, or consumes slowly or insidiously, like a gnawing worm.", "worms,(used with a singular verb)Pathology, Veterinary Pathology.any disease or disorder arising from the presence of parasitic worms in the intestines or other tissues; helminthiasis.", "(used with a plural verb)Metallurgy.irregularities visible on the surfaces of some metals subject to plastic deformation.", "the lytta of a dog or other carnivorous animal.", "computer code planted illegally in a software program so as to destroy data in any system that downloads the program, as by reformatting the hard disk."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to move or act like a worm; creep, crawl, or advance slowly or stealthily.", "to achieve something by insidious procedure (usually followed byinto):to worm into another's favor.", "Metallurgy. craze(def8a) craze(def8a)."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to cause to move or advance in a devious or stealthy manner:The thief wormed his hand into my coat pocket.", "to get by persistent, insidious efforts (usually followed byoutorfrom):to worm a secret out of a person.", "to insinuate (oneself or one's way) into another's favor, confidence, etc.:to worm his way into the king's favor.", "to free from worms:He wormed the puppies.", "Nautical.to wind yarn or the like spirally round (a rope) so as to fill the spaces between the strands and render the surface smooth."]}]