Adjective : vermiculate thought processes. From Dictionary.com.
Max Baucus's Medicare coverage for people exposed to asbestos in a vermiculate mine in Libby, Montana. From Wordnik.com. [Etch-a-Sketch: Name that giveaway] Reference
Surely, like as many substances in nature which are solid do putrefy and corrupt into worms; — so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness and life of spirit, but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
On their backs were vermiculate patters that were maps of the world in its becoming. From Wordnik.com. [SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines] Reference
On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. From Wordnik.com. [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference
And to leave her would be to quarrel, and start a thousand vermiculate questions, as Lord Bacon calls them, for which life is too serious in my eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Falconer] Reference
Other potting soil recipes can include perlite, peat, vermiculate, sand or lime, but if you're planting a seasonal container, simpler is cheaper and just as effective. From Wordnik.com. [News from www.thesunchronicle.com] Reference
The public health threat in Black Eagle is not as profound as it is in Libby, where deaths have been blamed on asbestosis related to the exposure to vermiculate from a longtime mine operated by the W.R. Grace company. From Wordnik.com. [greatfallstribune.com - Local News] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Malcolm] Reference
It is the property of good and sound knowledge, to putrifie and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may tearme them) vermiculate questions; which have indeed a kinde of quicknesse, and life of spirite, but no soundnesse of matter, or goodnesse of quality. From Wordnik.com. [David Elginbrod] Reference
According to the survey, which will be presented to stakeholders and investors at a workshop at the Grand Imperial Hotel in Kampala today and tomorrow, Uganda's soil also harbours large quantities of limestone, used for cement, and vermiculate, used for horticulture as well as brake linings and insulation. From Wordnik.com. [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference
(as I may term them) vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness and life of spirit, but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
You may live in the hearts and upon the lips of men and women yet unborn; and should the worst come, you may figure in "The Bibliographer's Manual," with a star of honor against your name, to indicate that you are exceedingly scarce and proportionally valuable; rival collectors, with fury in their faces, will run you up to a fabulous price at the auction, and you will at last be put into free quarters for life in some shady alcove upon some lofty shelf, with unlimited rations of dust, as you glide into a vermiculate dotage. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
"On their backs were vermiculate patters that were maps of the world in its becoming. From Wordnik.com. [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference
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