Blind"worm` (?), n. Zool.

A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder.

Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak.

 

© Webster 1913.

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