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‖ scolopendra|skɒləʊˈpɛndrə|
Also 7 erron. scolopendria.
[L., a. Gr. σκολόπενδρα.]
†1. A fabulous sea-fish which ‘feeling himselfe taken with a hooke, casteth out his bowels, vntill hee hath vnloosed the hooke, and then swalloweth them vp againe’ (Bullokar Eng. Expos. 1616).
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xii. 23 Bright Scolopendraes, arm'd with siluer scales. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 278 But, if the Scolopendra have suckt-in The sowr-sweet morsell with the barded Pin, She hath as rare a trick to rid her from it: For, instantly, she all her guts doth vomit; [etc.]. 1635Swan Spec. M. (1670) 342 The Scolopendra is a fish..which refuseth not the bait, but [etc.].
2. A centipede or millipede. Also (with capital initial), a Linnean genus of myriapods, including the largest and most formidable of the centipedes.
1608Topsell Serpents 31 There are Scolopendraes Vipers, and Slow-wormes in Creete, yet..they are without venome. 1611Cotgr., Scolopendre, the Scolopendria, a reddish, many-legd, and venomous worme. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xv. 142 Upon the same ground hath arisen the same mistake concerning the Scolopendra or hundred footed insect. 1673E. Brown Trav. Germ., etc. (1677) 17 An Indian Scolopendria, or Forty-foot. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v. Dying [Advancement of], The amber-coloured scolopendra will give, with lye, a most beautiful and pleasant azure. 1796Stedman Surinam II. xxiii. 167 We discovered some scolopendras, or centipedes, no less than eight or ten inches in length. 1829H. Murray N. Amer. I. xi. 516 Rattlesnakes and scolopendras crawled about. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon v. ii. 265 The Scolopendra are insects belonging to the order Myriopoda and to the family Chilopoda. They are commonly termed Millipedes.
†3. Applied in reproach to a woman. Obs.
1633Shirley Gamester ii. ii, More wine, you varlets! And call your mistress up, you scolopendra. a1668Davenant Siege v. (1673) 83 Go bring a Barrel hither; why? when you Scolopendra. |