Vermicular

This may readily be seen in the muscular action of the intestines, called vermicular motion. ❋ Albert F. Blaisdell (N/A)

It has hence been called vermicular, or _wormlike motion_. ❋ Ira Mayhew (1854)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mush-on! you Siwashes! he cried, attempting, in a vermicular way, to kick at them, and discovering himself to be tottering on the edge of a declivity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Words I'm surprised Word do know: vermicular, ETA holmgang ❋ Mrissa (2007)

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? ❋ Unknown (2006)

They led him to the back, up a vermicular staircase, past a tinkling fountain, to the girl's room. ❋ Anthony Doerr (2002)

Every pace or two he would hesitate as if to change his direction or even reverse it; his gait was described by a friend as “vermicular.” ❋ Robert L. Heilbroner (1999)

With respect to the _reptile_, or, as we should say, _insect_, alluded to in the preceding letter, we suppose it to have been a vermicular insect, similar to those inhabiting the _cells_ of _corallines_, of whose tiny labours, in the formation of coral islands, we quoted a spirited poetical description in No. 279 of the MIRROR. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Barkham Burroughs (N/A)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is this vermicular insignificance of the gossip that makes his detection so difficult, and gives him his security. ❋ Richard Le Gallienne (1906)

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. ❋ William Dodge Stevens (1899)

It was a notable object in the dim little church, having a wooden canopy supported on four slim oak pillars with vermicular moulding. ❋ George Gissing (1880)