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Look up: bookworm

  1. bookworm
    [n] - someone who spends a great deal of time reading
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Bookworm
    Book'worm` noun 1. (Zoology) Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known. 2. A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation. « I wanted but a bl...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/79

  3. bookworm
    1. <zoology> Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known. ... 2. A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation. 'I wanted but a black gown and a salary to be as mere a bookworm as any there.' (Pope) ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  4. bookworm
    noun someone who spends a great deal of time reading
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Bookworm
    • (n.) Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known. • (n.) A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. bookworm
    any insect (e.g., moths, beetles) whose larval (or adult) forms injure books by gnawing the binding and piercing the pages with small holes. No ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/93

  7. bookworm
    bookworm, popular name for the larvae of several beetles that bore through books, e.g., the drugstore, spider, and deathwatch beetles.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08082

  8. Bookworm
    (insect) `Bookworm` is a popular generalization for any insect which supposedly bores through books. Actual book-borers are uncommon. Both the larvae of the death watch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum) and the common furniture beetle (Anobium punctatum) will tunnel through wood a...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookworm

  9. Bookworm
    (comics) `Bookworm` was the eponymous fictional character in a comic strip in the British comic, Whoopee!. It first appeared in the early 1980s, and survived Whoopee!`s merger with Whizzer and Chips`` in 1985, becoming a Chip-ite. It was drawn by Sid Burgon for most of it...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookworm

  10. Bookworm
    (video game) `Bookworm` (or `Bespelled`) is a word-forming computer puzzle game by PopCap Games. From a grid of available letters, players connect letters to form words. As words are formed, they are removed from the grid and the remaining letters collapse to fill the available ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookworm



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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