unwormed
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- (of an animal) Not wormed; not treated for worms.
- 1810, Delabere Pritchett Blaine, A domestic treatise on the diseases of horses and dogs:
- The mouth, in some cases of madness, may become so swelled, that the dog cannot close his jaws ; but this may happen in a wormed or unwormed dog equally.
- (of a dog) Not having had the lytta removed.
- (of wood, etc.) Not spoiled by worms.
- 1906, Oliver Elton, Frederick York Powell, Frederick York Powell: A Life and Selection from His Letters:
- Its wooden substructure is solid, its timber unwormed, its royal blue cloth lining unfretted by the worm.