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Vermiculate

Vermiculate \Ver*mic"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vermiculated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vermiculating.] [L. vermiculatus inlaid so as to resemble the tracks of worms, p. p. of vermiculari to be full of worms, vermiculus a little worm. See Vermicular.] To form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if formed by the motion of worms.

Vermiculate

Vermiculate \Ver*mic"u*late\, a.

  1. Wormlike in shape; covered with wormlike elevations; marked with irregular fine lines of color, or with irregular wavy impressed lines like worm tracks; as, a vermiculate nut.

  2. Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical. ``Vermiculate questions.''
    --Bacon. ``Vermiculate logic.''
    --R. Choate.

Wiktionary
vermiculate
  1. 1 Like a worm; resembling a worm. 2 vermiculated. v

  2. To decorate with lines resembling the tracks of worms.

WordNet
vermiculate
  1. adj. eaten (or as if eaten) by worms [syn: worm-eaten, wormy]

  2. decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; "vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework" [syn: vermicular, vermiculated]

vermiculate

v. decorate with wavy or winding lines

Usage examples of "vermiculate".

That love should be capable of ending in such vermiculate results as too often appear, is no more against the loveliness of the divine idea, than that the forms of man and woman, the spirit gone from them, should degenerate to such things as may not be looked upon.

My life seemed only a vermiculate one, a crawling about of half-thoughts-half-feelings through the corpse of a decaying existence.

No insect-like, vermiculate or crustacean Abominable, no twitching feelers, rasping wings, slimy coils, curling tentacles, no monstrous union of superhuman intelligence and insatiable cruelty seemed to him anything but likely on an alien world.

On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming.

Set up originally with the bark on, the worms worked underneath it in secret, at a novel sort of decoration, until the bark came off and exposed the stems most beautifully vermiculated, giving the effect of fine carving.

The vermiculated stone copings of the hotel de la Force mark the transition between what is called the architecture of the Renaissance and that of Henri III.

She stood, wiping the make-up from her face turned away, and he stared at her thighs from behind, as a collector stares at the fine patina glazed over the courses of worms, for those vast vermiculated surfaces were furrowed so.

She went with him in a brushcar to a mating chamber, and after feeding each other several strands of vermiculate food and absorbing sprays of liquid, they settled down to serious music.