4S2 WORM 



WOIIM. — Baoit, baoite, baoiteag, beastapr, beist-da-liunn (tapo), 

 biasdag, biasd-da-liunn (ta})e), biastag, biathainne, biathairnc, bob, 

 boilg-bhiasd (belly), boireal (borer), botus, bride (ring), brabig 

 (caterpillar), brutag (palmer), bualagan-timchioll (ring), burrais, 

 burras, burruis ; Caideag (earth), caiteas, catus (caddis), cartan 

 (flesh), cnamhag, cnoimheag, cnomh (Ir.), cnuimh, cnuiv (Ir.), 

 cnuimh-goile (maw), cnuimh-lobhta (palmer), connough (Ir.), 

 corr or corra - chagailte (fire), cruimh, crumh, cuairt- dhurrag 

 or a chuairt - dhurrag (ring), cuil' or cuileag shniomhan or 

 shionnachan (glow) ; Dairbh, daol, daolag, darb, dathag (body), 

 deal-mara or mhara (skate), dian or diane, dirb, doirb, doirbeag, 

 droch (wood), durrag (caddis), durrag-chomhlaich (door or house), 

 durrag-feola (flesh) ; Fealan, feoil-chnoidheag or chnumhag, 

 feursann (cattle), fideag (ring), fiolan, fiolar, fri, fride, frideag (ring) ; 

 Geal' or gealla-thoU (bot), giun, goimh ; Kerog (Ir.) (? Ciarag) ; 

 Lamprag, lamprog (Ir.), leus-chnuimh (glow) ; Maotag (cabbage- 

 worm), martlan (maw-belly), moil (black), moireal (borer), mudag 

 (maw) ; Peist, piast (Ir.), plaigh-shlat (blind or slow) ; Seireacan, 

 seiteacan, sigearan, sigirean, siod-chnuimh, sitireun (silk) ; Teine- 

 de (ring), torain, torair (borer); Uirchir (chir). 



Anggwyltwachys (Devon), angle-dog or twitch (large earth — 

 Devon), anguelle (hawk) ; Badger-snail (large), bawe (bait — 

 Stevenson), belly, black (beetle — Cornw.), blind, body, bond, bot, 

 bowd, brittling (straw), brandling, brannel (caterpillar), broad 

 maw ; Caddis, cadew, caneca, canker, cannisca (wood), caterpillar, 

 cattle, chackie-mill (wood), chir, coach-and-horses, cod bait (caddis), 

 connough, corn, craman, crammeal, crammin, cranet (red), cruimh- 

 gheala (glow-worm), cut (slow — North) ; Door or house, dung-hiH ; 

 Eace (large), earth, esses (large); Fire (mythical), flesh, flook, 

 fluder (liver), free (hand) ; Glare, glaze (glow) glisigenda-wibba 

 (A. S.), globerde (glow), glow, glow-bason, glyde, gogar (bait), 

 gorrom, grou-grou (corn-grub) ; Half-palmer, horse ; Ingle-dog 

 (large earth) ; Kenack ; Lady's lap-dog (hop), lea-low (glow), liver, 

 lob, lug, lumbrike, lurg, lurgan (sea) ; Mad (North), maliscale, 

 mascale (palmer), maw, meel-cave (foot), miles (gut), mulharten 

 (toe) ; Nescock, nutre ; Palmer ; Red, ring, round gut ; Sea-low 

 (glow), shromp (dung), silk, sla-wyrm (A. S.), slick, slorry (blind — 

 Kent), slow, storey ; Tape, teasing or tesing (ring), torrie, torrie 

 (crane), torris, trunchon (Pulsgrave) ; Warbot (Pulsgrave), weevil, 

 wheal, wood, wurt (canker). 



From Teutonic type " wormi," a worm, snake ; or from the Latin 

 vermis. An Irish term for worm is "crumh-cuar," which literally 

 means the twisted or twisting, crooked or perverse one. " Lamprog," 

 the glow-worm, comes from " lam," shining. Fealan or fiolan, 

 nescock, is a little worm about half an inch in length and the 

 thickness of a goose-quill, having numerous little feet, found in 

 head and neck (Skye), according to Martin. In a note to 



