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ˈspider-like, adv. and a.
[f. spider n.]
A. adv. In or after the manner of a spider; with the power of faculty (real or supposed) of a spider.
Freq. in the 17th cent.
1604Hieron Wks. I. 497 Mans corrupt nature, spider⁓like, turneth the wholesome doctrine into poison. 1673Dryden Marr. à la Mode ii. i, And when our eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. 1700C. Nesse Antid. Armin. (1827) 117 If man (spider-like) could spin a thread out of his own bowels. 1783Wolcot (P. Pindar) Lyric Odes i. vi, Like him, in holes too, spider-like, I mope. 1839Bailey Festus 128, I have that within me I can live upon: Spider-like, spin my place out anywhere. 1869Ld. Lytton Orval ii. vii. 69, I cannot pass Where pathway none can be. Nor from myself Spin, spiderlike, a passage through the vast And vacant air.
B. adj. Like or resembling a spider or that of a spider; having the characteristic appearance or qualities of a spider; spidery.
a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. vi. 16 Some men have such a spider-like disposition, as they will suck poison out of the sweetest flowers. 1754Hay Ess. Deformity 18, I..often restrain my inclination to perform those little Services, rather than expose my Spider like Shape. 1806Shaw Gen. Zool. VI. ii. 472 The present genus [sc. Phalangium], which, exclusive of its spider-like shape, is..armed with weapons resembling those of the genus Aranea. 1841Dickens Barn. Rudge (1849) 235/1 Struggling to free himself from her chaste, but spider like embrace. |