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Spider

noun

Predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey.

A computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine. Synonym: wanderer.

A skillet made of cast iron.

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"Spider" Quotes from Famous Books

... were only that butterfly!" At that moment the luxurious vagrant, in the midst of its careless sports, and voluptuous banquet, became entangled in a web woven by a great black spider, which sat with eager impatience waiting until it had wound itself into the toils by its fruitless exertions, that he might seize and devour his prey. The heart of Adakar melted with pity; starting up ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 • Various

... passage in Scripture," said Oisille, "too good for you to turn to your own purposes. But beware of doing like the spider, which transforms sound meat into poison. Be advised that it is a perilous matter to quote Scripture out ...

— The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.) • Margaret, Queen Of Navarre

... he assured her, "but, you see, all over Germany there is spread like a spider's web the lay religion of the citizen—devotion to the Government, blind obedience to the Kaiser. Independent thought has made Germany great in science, in political economy, in economics. But independent thought is never turned ...

— The Zeppelin's Passenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... Common: star; [{splat}]; . Rare: wildcard; gear; dingle; mult; spider; aster; times; twinkle; glob (see {glob}); ...

— THE JARGON FILE, VERSION 2.9.10

... by the sight of the sufferers, and for over two centuries excited the astonishment of contemporaries. The Netherlands and France were equally affected; in Italy the disease became known as tarantism, it being supposed to proceed from the bite of the tarantula, a venomous spider. Like the St. Vitus' dance in Germany, tarantism spread by sympathy, increasing in severity as it took a wider range; the chief cure was music, which seemed to furnish magical means for exorcising ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various

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