Word Finder - spider

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Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.

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A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

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A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).

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2002, Katharine Gasparini, Cranberry and vanilla ice cream spider, recipe in Cool Food, page 339.

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An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.

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A spindly person.

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A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.

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A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension; a bridge.

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A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.

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Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer

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A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.

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Heroin (street drug).

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Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.

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A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.

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(fly fishing) a soft-hackle fly

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The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard

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A spider graph or spider tree

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A type of light phaeton.

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To move like a spider.

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To cover a surface like a cobweb.

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(of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

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The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.

Giddon exclaimed sharply and clawed a spider web from his face.

Until maturity is reached the spider has the power to repair lost or damaged limbs.

A spider's web is a breaker's yard in miniature.

As a permanent home the spider makes beneath the surface a thimble-shaped web, with inverted mouth, anchoring it to the weeds.

The tarantula spider and the scorpion are found in the south of Italy.

Sometimes the shape of the spider combines with the colour to produce the same effect, as in the species of Uloborus, which as they hang in thin shabby-looking webs exactly resemble fragments of wind-blown rubbish.

I made fairy cakes and covered them in white icing and piped a chocolate spider web on them.

The bite, however, of any spider, strong enough to pierce the skin, may give rise to a certain amount of local inflammation and pain depending principally upon the amount of poison injected.

This deviation is the adoption of an aquatic mode of life by the European fresh-water spider (Argyroneta) and by the marine spider Desis, which is found on the shores of the Indian and Pacific Oceans from Cape Colony to eastern Australia.

During the last two or three years of his life Louis lived in great isolation, "seeing no one, speaking with no one, except such as he commanded," in the château of Plessis-les-Tours, that "spider's nest" bristling with watch towers, and guarded only by the most trusty servitors.

At this place we saw wild toucans and little spider monkeys, they are so beautiful.

Scientific research has not come up with all the reasons why spider veins occur.

Very few species of spider are able to inject venom through human skin.

When the male wolf spider stridulates, he sends the vibrations through a leaf to the chosen female.

Again there was plenty of life with spider crabs, rainbow wrasse and shoals of larger fish above.

Belly does the tickling mostly, being rather a bad spider, while Smelly plays cute.

Building mental maps, concept maps, spray or spider diagrams Prioritizing key points for each section of a topic.

Various identifications have been published for the spiders used in spider divination.

May be attacked by aphids, vine weevil, slugs, leaf and bud eelworms and greenhouse red spider mite.

White-whiskered Spider Monkey (Ateles marginatus) This localized endemic is easily found in the forests around Cristalino Lodge.

Clearly Havergate Island has a very important spider fauna with a species content markedly skewed toward rarity.

But for sheer ferocity and lust of blood, perhaps no creature on earth can equal that uncanny brute, the common garden spider.

It's not a snake or spider, but the strangler fig tree.

A few long wisps of white hair, like shreds of a torn spider web, clinging to the domed, blue-veined forehead.

The crystalline regions are very hydrophobic which aids the loss of water during solidification of spider silk.

Internet marketer there are some basic things you should know about how search engines spider and index your web site.

I started off with a rather messy spider diagram of what I thought might be on the site.

Maintain humidity to avoid red spider mite by damping down with the hosepipe.

On average, an adult spider molts once a year whilst younger spiders may molts once a year whilst younger spiders may molt more regularly due to their bodies growing faster.

Colombian black-faced spider monkeys live in the mature rain forest of Colombia.

Wentworth beats him to the draw and leaves on his forehead the seal of The Spider, an already notorious killer of criminals.

Spider comes across as the mutant offspring of Hunter S Thomson and John Pilger.

Spider web patterns stuck on the slippery, shining icy pavement.

My dream vehicle would be to have a spider phaeton or one of those comfy looking marathon carriages.

The volunteers were then asked to face their specific phobia by either giving a speech in public or coming into contact with a spider.

Wildlife is plentiful and includes the spider monkey, tree porcupine, parrots and hummingbirds.

More about the fen raft spider All the water in the fen gradually flows into the river Waveney.

It is often confused with a very tiny red spider which gathers in huge numbers on the underside of leaves for mating purposes.

The spider screamed, a long piercing high pitched scream which shattered through The Captain's hearing.

The spider originates from Mexico and Panama where it lives in semi-desert scrubland.

We recommend the soft shell crab tempura, Chilean sea bass with black bean, any kind of sashimi and the spider rolls.

For wildlife aficionados, there are congers, cuckoo wrasse and dense shoals of bib as well as massive spider crabs and lobsters.

Some spiders may consume it, for the protein in spider silk is not to be wasted.

Ereshkigal's words crawled over Ishtar like a venomous spider.

It's got everything from how two people can become a giant spider to the best way to make huge sticky lakes of blood.

I owned a tarantula spider until it went to the big cobweb in the sky a few years ago.

In 1981 the fen raft spider became one of the 23 species of arthropod protected in Britain by the Wildlife and Countryside Act.

They have also created a cute Nursery range with classics such as ' Twinkle Twinkle little star ' and ' Incy Wincy spider ' .

One of our least cuddly animals, the golden orb spider has become a mother.

But firms can't hide behind a spider's web of hidden surprises and get-out clauses.