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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

A little worm.

O dusty

wormling

! dost thou strive and stand
With heaven’s high monarch?

Sylvester.

wormling ‎(plural wormlings)

A little worm.
O dusty wormling! dost thou strive and stand / With heaven's high monarch? — Sylvester.
(by extension) Any weak, mean, or lowly creature.
- 1807, Alexander Geddes, A New Translation of the Book of Psalms:
  But I am a wormling, and not a man ; the scorn of men, and derision of the people.