An instrument with a sliding blade for cutting the tonsils, uvula, or other body parts.
A device used for cutting the pages of books, stacks of paper, etc., to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged or sliding blade attached to a flat platform.
A legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.
A parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously.
A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.
To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.
To cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine.
To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.
To execute (someone) with a guillotine.
A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
The lytta.
A contemptible or devious being.
A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
To work one's way by artful or devious means.
To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
To move with one's body dragging the ground.
To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
To deworm (an animal).