spider

Any of numerous arachnids of the order Araneae, having a body divided into a cephalothorax and an abdomen, eight legs, two chelicerae that bear venom glands, and two or more spinnerets that produce the silk used to make nests, cocoons, or webs for trapping insects.

One that resembles a spider, as in appearance, character, or movement.

A program that automatically retrieves webpages and follows the links on them to retrieve more webpages. Spiders are used by search engines to retrieve publicly accessible webpages for indexing, and they can also be used to check for links to webpages that no longer exist.

A trivet.

In the English form of pyramid-pool billiards, a skeleton rest, or bridge, designed for certain exigencies.

In archery, a prize for the best gold, awarded at the Grand National Archery meeting in England.

An arthropod of the order Araneæ, Araneina, or Araneida (the old Linnean genus Aranea), of the class Arachnida, of which there are many families, hundreds of genera, and thousands of species, found all over the world.

Some other arachnidan, resembling or mistaken for a spider; a spider-mite. See red-spider.

A spider-crab; a sea-spider.