vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
This may readily be seen in the muscular action of the intestines, called vermicular motion. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Words I'm surprised Word do know: vermicular, ETA holmgang. From Wordnik.com. [All the cool kids are doing it--] Reference
They led him to the back, up a vermicular staircase, past a tinkling fountain, to the girl's room. From Wordnik.com. [The Shell Collector : Stories] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
The most detestable of all the vermicular tribe is the Worm of the Still, which is a sort of caterer for the worm which never dieth -- a reptile of another sphere, that has never been described in Natural History. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870] Reference
Later on, after the solstitial pause for refleshmeant, the same man (or a different and younger him of the same ham) asked in the vermicular with a very oggly chew-chin-grin: Was six vic-tolios fifteen pigeon takee offa you, tell he me, stlongfella, by picky-pocky ten to foul months behindaside?. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
The crankcase is made of vermicular-graphite cast iron. From Wordnik.com. [Automotive Headlines] Reference
It is this vermicular insignificance of the gossip that makes his detection so difficult, and gives him his security. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference
The worm of workers passes three days in the egg, five in the vermicular state, and then the bees close up its cell with a wax covering. From Wordnik.com. [New observations on the natural history of bees] Reference
Many engines uses aluminium and vermicular graphite cast iron, which is the result of a high-tech production process, to reduce the weight of the crankcase. From Wordnik.com. [Autoblog Green] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Faith Doctor A Story of New York] Reference
A little further on was another small muddy basin, in which the water was warm to the finger: in it was a vermes about balf an inch long, moving with a serpentine or vermicular motion. From Wordnik.com. [The debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States : with an appendix containing important state papers and public documents, and all the laws of a public nature; with a copious index; compiled from authentic materials] Reference
The worms proceeding from them pass their vermicular state in the same place where the eggs were deposited, which proves that bees are not charged with the care of transporting the eggs as has been supposed. From Wordnik.com. [New observations on the natural history of bees] Reference
The poisonous sangsue of Charlottesville may always be distinguished from the medicinal leech by its blackness, and especially by its writhing or vermicular motions, which very nearly resemble those of a snake. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of the Ragged Mountains] Reference
By the time I had added an ordinary typewriter table to its scanty furnishing, I was hard put to turn around; at the best, I managed to navigate it by a sort of vermicular progression requiring great dexterity and presence of mind. From Wordnik.com. [The People of the Abyss] Reference
In a fearfully brief period the patient died, when it appeared that, in the jar containing the leeches, had been introduced, by accident, one of the venomous vermicular sangsues which are now and then found in the neighbouring ponds. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of the Ragged Mountains] Reference
The company manufactures machine tools, mainly lathes and machining centers, plastic injection and blow molding machines for thermoplastics and parts made of grey, nodular or vermicular cast iron, which are supplied rough or machined. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
Nature has appropriated cells of certain dimensions for the worms of workers while in their vermicular state; undoubtedly she has ordained that their organs should be fully expanded, and there is sufficient space for that purpose; therefore more would be useless. From Wordnik.com. [New observations on the natural history of bees] Reference
Under a lilac the ground seemed moister and more promising for vermicular investigation; she drew on her gloves, dug a few holes with the trowel, extracted an angleworm, frowned slightly, holding it between gloved fingers, regarding its contortions with pity and aversion. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Star] Reference
I will only tell you that during one especial occasion of rejoicing, a feast was given after a victory over a neighboring tribe, when the bound captives were piled together in black, shining heaps, that had a constant vermicular movement, each human pile guarded by a soldier. From Wordnik.com. [A Village Ophelia and Other Stories] Reference
The disorders attending these small but inestimable members, the teeth, are invariably to be traced to a species of worm, and this the most obstinate, as well as the most fatal species in the vermicular tribe, which contrives to conceal itself at the root of the affected member. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.] Reference
"That's the very feature of it that seems to me most dreadful; the vermicular aspect; the massed uprising; the massed death. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
“the development of the human body might possibly be traced from the radiated vermicular molluscous and vertebrate organisms,” thirty years before Darwin published The Origin of Species. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Tennyson] Reference
A fearfully brief period the patient died, when it appeared that in the jar containing the leeches, had been introduced, by accident, one of the venomous vermicular sangsues which are now and then found in the neighboring ponds. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3] Reference
Are you vermicular? posted by Frank | 7:46 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-03-01] Reference
"Vegetable Mould," page 122.), and do they throw up on the surface of the ground numerous castings or vermicular masses such as we so commonly see in Europe?. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
The poisonous sangsue of Charlottesville may always be distinguished from the medicinal leech by its blackness, and especially by its writhing or vermicular motions, which very nearly resemble those of a snake. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3] Reference
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