vermicular
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His speech was bumbling, his gait "vermicular," his appearance unfetching.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the skin immediately adjacent to them being pressed with the finger nails, these bits of coagulated lymph will come from it in a vermicular form.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs
Nobody went around in that day to explain the vermicular motion of the stomach or the upward action of nerve-force, or the psychopathic value of animal magnetism.
From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Edward Eggleston
It was a notable object in the dim little church, having a wooden canopy supported on four slim oak pillars with vermicular moulding.
From Demos by George Gissing
The etched scene of Sikes's desperation on the roof of a house in Jacob's Island, Bermondsey, is in essence Misery itself, vermicular as well as violent.
From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson
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