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n. (alternative spelling of glowworm English)
Usage examples of "glow-worm".
I caught up yet one more handful of cherries, and stumbled out, heavy and dim, into a pale-green firmanent of buds and glow-worms, to seek the poor Rosinante I had so heedlessly deserted.
All round the paneled walls there were ancient paintings of departed badgers, famous in their day for scholarship or godliness, lit up from above by shaded glow-worms.
It was barely brighter than a glow-worm, but single photon can do a lot of work in chthonic darkness.
Could he have been seen from the ramparts high overhead, as he now peered down behind his lantern into the cavities and irregularities below him, he would have looked, with his flickering light, like a mole led by a glow-worm.
It was a dugout some seven ells long with upswept pointed ends upon which glow-worm lanterns hung.
Like the interior of some surrealistic palace built by a mad King, the whole scene was pricked out with the jewels of billions of silent glow-worms dreaming sapphire dreams.
There were the portraits of long-dead badgers, famous for scholarship or godliness: there were the glow-worms and the mahogany fans and the tilting board for circulating the decanters.
Down in its depths glimmered like a glow-worm thread the wraith-road from the dead city to the Nameless Pass.