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For his weeping in the needless stream ; 
Poor deer, quoth he, thou mak’st a testament 
As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more 
To that which had too much. Shakspeare. 
■ WO'RLDLY, adj. Secular; relating to this life, in con¬ 
tradistinction to the life to come. 
He is divinely bent to meditation ; 
And in no worldly suits would he be moved, 
To draw him from his holy exercise. Shakspeare. 
Bent upon this world; not attentive to a future state. 
They’ll practise how to live secure. 
Worldly or dissolute, on that their lords 
Shall leave them to enjoy. Milton. 
Human ; common ; belonging to the world.—Many years 
it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean, but 
that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 
WO'RLDLY, adv. With relation to the present life. 
Since your mind is worldly bent. 
Therefore of the two gifts in my dispose, 
Think ere you speak, I grant you leave to choose. Dry den. 
WORLE, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 7| miles 
north-west of Axbridge. 
WORLESTON, a township of England, in Cheshire; 3§ 
miles north of Nantwich. 
WORLINGHAM, Great and Little, united parishes 
of England, in Suffolk; 2 miles east-south-east of Beccles. 
WORLINGTON, a parish of England, in Suffolk; I mile 
west-south-west of Mildenhall. 
WORLINGTON, East and West, adjoining parishes of 
England, in Devonshire. 
WORLINGWORTH, a parish of England, in Suffolk ; 
5 miles north-west of Framlingham. Population 595. 
WORLITZ, a town of Germany, in the duchy cf Anhalt- 
Dessau. Population 1900. 
WORM, s. [pyjnn, Saxon; worm, Dutch; vermis, 
Lat.] A small harmless serpent that lives in the earth. 
Both the princes 
Thy broken faith hath made a prey to worms. Shakspeare. 
I from my marble monument shall rise 
Again intire, and see him with these eyes. Sandys. 
At once came forth whatever creeps the ground, 
Insect or worm. Milton. 
A poisonous serpent.—The mortal worm. Shakspeare. — 
Animal bred in the body.—Physicians observe these worms 
engendered within the body of man. Harvey. —The animal 
that spins silk. Silkworm.—Thou owest the worm no silk, 
the sheep no wool. Shakspeare. —Grubs that gnaw wood 
and furniture. 
’Tis no awkward claim. 
Pick’d from the wwwt-holes of long-vanish’d days. 
Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak’d. Shakspeare. 
Something tormenting.—The worm of conscience still 
begnaw thy soul! Shakspeare. —Any thing vermicuiated, 
or turned round ; any thing spiral. A supposed membrane 
or ligament under the tongue of a dog. See the second 
meaning of To Worm. —When you see a mad dog step 
aside out of his walk only to bite somebody, and then return 
to it again, you had best ask him the reason why he did so ? 
Why, the reason is that he is mad, and his worm will not 
let him he quiet, without doing mischief, when he has oppor¬ 
tunity. South. 
To WORM, v. n. To work slowly, secretly, and gra¬ 
dually. 
When debates and fretting jealousy. 
Did worm and work within you more and more. 
Your colour faded. Herbert. 
'To WORM, v. a. To drive by slow and secret means, 
perhaps as by a screw.—They find themselves wormed out 
of all power, by a new spawn of independents, sprung from 
your own bowels. Swift. —To deprive a dog of something, 
nobody knows what, under his tongue, which is said to 
prevent him, nobody knows why, from running mad.— 
Every one that keepeth a dog, should have him wormed. 
Mortimer. 
WORMBRIDGE, a parish of England, in Herefordshire; 
9 miles south-west of Hereford. 
WORMDIT, or Ormeta, a town of East Prussia, on the 
small river Drevenz, with 2300 inhabitants. 
WO'RMEAT, or Wo'rmeaten, adj. Gnawed by 
worms.—For his verity in love, I do think him as concave 
as a covered goblet, or a wormeaten nut. Shakspeare .— 
Old; worthless. 
His chamber all was hanged about with rolls. 
And old records from antient times deriv’d ; 
Some made in books, some in long parchment scrolls, 
That were all wormeaten, and full of canker holes. Spenser. 
WORMEA'TENNESS, s. State of being wormeaten ; 
roltenness.—By the ceasing of the teeth, we must understand 
all those infirmities that are incident to them by reason of 
age, whether looseness, hollowness, rottenness, wormeaten- 
ness. See. Smith. 
WORMELOW, a hamlet of England, in Herefordshire; 
6 | miles from Hereford. 
WQRMENHALL, a parish of England, in Buckingham¬ 
shire ; 12 miles west-south-west of Aylesbury. 
WORMER, a village of the Netherlands; 8 miles north 
of Amsterdam. It is noted for its extensive manufacture of 
white lead for painting. Population 1200. 
WORMGAY, or Wermegay, a parish of England, in 
Norfolk ; 7 miles north-north-east of Market Downham. 
WORMHILL, a township of England, in Derbyshire, 
near Tides well. 
WORMHOUT, a town of French Flanders; 45 miles 
north-west of Douay. Population 3100. 
WORMINGFORD, a parish of England, in Essex; 6J 
miles north-west of Colchester. Population 385. 
WORMINGTON, a parish of England, in Gloucester¬ 
shire; 5 miles north-by-east of Winchcoinbe. 
WORMIUS (Glaus), a Danish physician, descended from 
a family which fled from Arnheim, in Guelderland, to Den¬ 
mark, from the persecution of the duke of Alva, was born 
at Aarhuus, in Jutland, in 1588, and finished his education 
at the university of Marpurg; afterwards availing himself of 
the lectures which he attended in the principal German aca¬ 
demies, and in his tour through France, Italy, Switzerland, 
and Holland. He then returned to Denmark in 1610, and 
having in the following year taken the degree of doctor in 
medicine at Basle, he passed through the Netherlands to 
England, and in 1613 returned to his native country, where 
by successive preferments he became professor of medicine 
in 1624, in consequence of the resignation of Caspar Bar¬ 
tholin. Although he obtained, in 1636, a canonicate in 
the chapter of Lund, he continued his professional practice, 
and was often consulted by Christian IV. and Christian V. 
His knowledge of antiquities, medicine, and anatomy, was 
profound; and in 1628 he discovered bones in the human 
skull, called after his name “ sex ossicula Wormiana in su- 
tura cranii lamdoidea.” His collection of curiosities was, 
after his death, lodged in the royal museum. He was thrice 
married, and had 18 children. He died in 1654. His 
writings were very numerous; and the principal of them are 
enumerated in the General Biography, to which we refer. 
WORMLEIGIITON, a parish of England, in Warwick¬ 
shire ; 6 miles from Southam. 
WORMLEY, a parish of England, in Hertfordshire, near 
Cheshunt. 
WORMS, a city in the west of Germany, which, if not 
large, is ancient, and well known in history. It stands on 
the left bank of the Rhine, a few hundred yards from the 
river, and is, like most old towns in Germany, surrounded 
with a decaying wall. The streets are dark and narrow ; 
the cathedral, a ponderous Gothic building, with dismantled 
walls. The population is said to have been formerly con¬ 
siderable; but the city having been laid waste by the French 
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