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worm red en · ADJ

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1. Of a dull, brownish red color.
   • with this stuff the files are thickly smeared all over; they are then heated in a fire of clean cokes, to a sort of worm-red, in the course of which heating each file is occasionally withdrawn, and any bends or twists corrected 1831, John Holland, A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement and Present State of the Manufactures in Metal, Volume 1, page 309:
   • About fifteen chaetigerous segments. Operculum hollowed to form an incubatory pouch, the calcareous lid of which is rejected after use and regenerated. Eggs red or orange. Worm red or orange posteriorly, colourless anteriorly. 1967, Nellie Barbara Eales, Littoral Fauna of the British Isles, page 96:
   • The pot is then placed in a bright coal fire, where it remains till the whole is of a worm red. 1881, William Wellington Greener, The Gun and Its Development, page 267: