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Worm, according to the Webster's New World Dictionary (1962 edition), 'worm' means 'any of many long, slender, soft-bodied creeping animals, some segmented, that live by burrowing underground or as parasites, as the earthworm, tapeworm'. According to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 'worm' means 'a slender, creeping, naked, limbless animal usually brown or reddish with a soft body divided into a series of segments; an earthworm', State (Delhi Administration) v. Puran Mal, AIR 1985 SC 741: (1985) 2 SCC 589: (1985) 3 SCR 464.