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vermiculated


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Vermiculated  \Ver*mic"u*la`ted\,  a. 
  Made  or  marked  with  irregular  wavy  lines  or  impressions; 
  vermiculate. 
 
  {Vermiculated  work},  or  {Vermicular  work}  (Arch.),  rustic 
  work  so  wrought  as  to  have  the  appearance  of  convoluted 
  worms,  or  of  having  been  eaten  into  by  or  covered  with 
  tracks  of  worms.  --Gwilt. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  vermiculated 
  adj  :  decorated  with  wormlike  tracery  or  markings;  "vermicular  (or 
  vermiculated)  stonework"  [syn:  {vermicular},  {vermiculate}] 




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