Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Vermiculate

Vermiculate , transitive verb

[Latin vermiculatus inlaid so as to resemble the tracks of worms, past participle of vermiculari to be full of worms, vermiculus a little worm. See Vermicular.]

To form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if formed by the motion of worms.

Vermiculate , adjective

1.
Wormlike in shape; covered with wormlike elevations; marked with irregular fine lines of color, or with irregular wavy impressed lines like worm tracks; as, a vermiculate nut.
2.
Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical.
Vermiculate questions. — Bacon
Vermiculate logic. — R. Choate