Cariose - ous: corroded; appearing as if worm-eaten. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
'I'm hitting at myself; for old oak, you know, gets worm-eaten. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
A quantity of worm-eaten timber had been taken out from her sides. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young] Reference
With trembling hands he picked up a worm-eaten stick beside the stove. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Many of the manuscripts were imperfect, having become worm-eaten or illegible. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers of Biology] Reference
Not a single unsound, worm-eaten or empty nut had she allowed to go into her stores. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
The third worm-eaten plank is Obama's undivided support of the American labor unions. From Wordnik.com. [The President's Four Rotten Policy Planks] Reference
Behind the chimney there is surely a worm-eaten, wooden chest which excites curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
He even stained it and cut holes in it to give the impression of aged worm-eaten paper. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
All are very old, dirty and worm-eaten, and I feel sure must therefore be very valuable. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914] Reference
The floorboards themselves were grey with age, and dusty, but not worm-eaten, not rotten. From Wordnik.com. [Longshot]
Some of the wood that he used was cut at the wrong season, and is consequently worm-eaten. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
"I will" fluttered from the worm-eaten ships of Columbus; "I will" blazed upon the banners of. From Wordnik.com. [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference
How triumphantly was the first copy, now worm-eaten and forgotten, contemplated by the author!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
He advances on a worm-eaten gilded chair and puts it in front of a dilapidated Biedermeier wardrobe. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
Burns, on opening the folio, found the leaves sadly worm-eaten, and wrote these lines on the fly-leaf. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
In the centre of the room is a massive but worm-eaten table, capable of seating twenty persons at least. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891] Reference
The wood of the lime is said never to be worm-eaten; it is very soft and smooth and of a pale-yellow color. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference
Such leaves sometimes are worm-eaten and of various colors on the same leaf -- one part dark and another light. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Every morning Ropey came grinning into the prison, with a bucket full of the old worm-eaten biscuit from the Julia. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
So there were: big reptiles threshing the slimy surface with leather-covered bones, their worm-eaten eyes gazing up. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
Ought this sheet of old worm-eaten parchment to be of so much value to me, who am neither an antiquary nor a scholar?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Nagasaki appeared to me so old, so worm-eaten, so bald, notwithstanding all its veneer of new papers and gaudy paintings. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It is old and worm-eaten, and after I have several times flung it on the floor, the joints give way, and it falls to pieces. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Birmingham bedstead is cleaner, healthier, and more desirable for a small crowded cottage than a worm-eaten old wooden four-poster. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
That shabby calf-bound worm-eaten volume seemed such a poor exchange for the precious slip of paper that had just left his fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891] Reference
The first grade would include the whole reasonably sound fruit; the second grade the worm-eaten, partially decayed and injured fruit. From Wordnik.com. [Every Step in Canning] Reference
We had to get around the obstacle by passing from the railing to the banisters, and walk down the outside of the worm-eaten balusters. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
Ten houses and a wretched wharf on worm-eaten piling at the end of a funnel of mountains with terrible rocks is all there is of Medua. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting France] Reference
Peel your apples, cut away the cores and all the worm-eaten parts -- for nearly the whole of the windfalls are more or less worm-eaten. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes] Reference
Then we came to the most barren country I ever saw, -- nothing but broken, rusty, worm-eaten looking rocks, where the rattlesnakes live. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
His "belly-timber," as old Misson so aptly if indelicately describes it, was mostly worm-eaten or rotten, his drink indescribably nasty. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
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