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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

... "The spider hath woven his web in the imperial palace; And the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers ...

— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace

... clearly shows the author's meaning to have been, that if any one departed at once after tasting of the beverage, he would have no knowledge of what he had drunk; {96} but if he remained, some one present might point out to him the spider in the cup, and then "he cracks ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 • Various

... it will fly off, just as the others did. I never saw such a chap as that spider is. He keeps on spinning a new one every day, for they always get broke, and he don't seem to be discouraged a mite," said Ben, glad to change the subject, as she knew he ...

— Under the Lilacs • Louisa May Alcott

... Luther lasted till July 13. Luther concluded his argument with the words: 'I am sorry that the learned doctor only dips into Scripture as deep as the water-spider into the water—nay, that he seems to fly from it as the devil from the Cross. I prefer, with all deference to the Fathers, the authority of Scripture, which I herewith recommend to the arbiters of ...

— Life of Luther • Julius Koestlin

... of the entree to something like a home, because the upper crust of Mycening considered him as "only Dr. Kingston's partner," and the Kingstons themselves had the sort of sense that he was too much for them which makes a spider dislike to have a ...

— My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph • Charlotte M. Yonge

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