Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old genus of spiders, more or less exactly equivalent to the modern superfamily Araneida.
- noun [NL., neut. pl.] A former group of spiders, intermediate between a modern order and a modern genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a genus of common garden spiders.
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- noun a genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders
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Examples
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Intra hanc Ecclesiam nunquam musca, vel aranea, aut huiusmodi immundi vermiculi nascuntur, quod similiter per diuinum accidit miraculum: nam antè replebatur Ecclesia talibus immunditiis, et totus conuentus recederet ad construendum Ecclesiam in alio loco.
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Intra hanc Ecclesiam nunquam musca, vel aranea, aut huiusmodi immundi vermiculi nascuntur, quod similiter per diuinum accidit miraculum: nam ant� replebatur Ecclesia talibus immunditiis, et totus conuentus recederet ad construendum Ecclesiam in alio loco.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The tela aranea is said to take its origin from the retina, the retina from the optic nerve, and the latter from the rethi (rete, network) involving the substance of the brain.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Mygale fusca, a veritable monster, covered with dark brown hair, and called in the vernacular _aranea peluda_ -- hairy spider.
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Among the capricious freaks of that emperor, it is said that he undertook to investigate the statistics of the arachnoid population of the capital, and that 10,000 pounds of spiders (or spiders 'webs -- for aranea is equivocal) were readily collected; but when he got up a mouse-show, he thought ten thousand mice a very fair number.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical) 1874
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Its rusty colour, its ill-shaped body, and hairy legs, combined with the piercing look from its eyes, gave it a most vicious appearance, such as belongs, less or more, to all of its race -- for it was of the race _aranea_, or spiders.
The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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Among the capricious freaks of that emperor, it is said that he undertook to investigate the statistics of the arachnoid population of the capital, and that 10,000 pounds of spiders (or spiders 'webs -- for aranea is equivocal) were readily collected; but when he got up a mouse-show, he thought ten thousand mice a very fair number.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841
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For instance, the 'aranea theologica' may draw out the whole web of the Westminster Catechism from the simple creed of the beloved Disciple, -- 'whoever believeth with his heart, and professeth with his mouth, that Jesus is Lord and Christ,' -- shall be saved.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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-- Arachne (whence the spider (_aranea_) has its name) was a woman of Colopho who challenged Pallas to a trial of skill in needlework, and, being defeated, hanged herself.
Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes Jean de La Fontaine 1658
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Intra hanc Ecclesiam nunquam musca, vel aranea, aut huiusmodi immundi vermiculi nascuntur, quod similiter per diuinum accidit miraculum: nam antè replebatur Ecclesia talibus immunditiis, et totus conuentus recederet ad construendum Ecclesiam in alio loco.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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