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

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  1. n. A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder.
  2. n. small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind
  3. n. any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions
  4. 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.
  5. A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguisfragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; theslowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder.Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak.
  6. n. small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind