Earth"worm` (?), n.
1. Zool.
Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also angleworm and dewworm.
2.
A mean, sordid person; a niggard.
Norris.
© Webster 1913.