worming pot (wermingpot)

In pottery, a device for placing bands, stripes, or other ornaments in color upon pottery. It consists of a ve el from which the color i ues through quill-like tubes in a continuous stream as the ware is revolved in a lathe. The larva of a worm-larva (werm'lär vä), n. worm; the larval stage of one of the Vermes . worm-like (wėrm'lik), a. Resembling a worm in shape or movement; vermiform; vermicu- lar; spiral or spirally twisted. wormling (werm'ling), n. [= Icel. yrmlingr; as worm + -ling1 .] A little worm; hence, a weak, mean creature. O dusty wormling ! dar'st thou striue and stand With Heav'ns high Monarch? wilt thou (wretch) demand Count of his deeds? Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Imposture. wormodt, n. A Middle English form of worm wood. Wyclif .