Meaning of spideret | Babel Free

Definitions

A baby spider.

rare

Examples

“What shrieks and groans of widow spideresses and orphaned spiderets must haunt his guilty slumbers!”

“See⟳! what a busy region we disturb when we lift⟳ this stone! Half-a-dozen scarlet-bodied spiderets, “soldiers,” scampering away in most unmilitary haste to hide⟳ under crumbs of brown earth; here a grey-brownish slug, there a jet black one, larger and fatter, put⟳ out first one and then another tentacle, resenting the intrusion on their slumber, while you wonder⟳ how such big, soft animals can lie⟳, to say⟳ nothing of sleeping, under a mass of stone like⟳ this.”

“Yesterday coming in from the garden Annie called my attention to a something in a cobweb that I had thought was a spider and had left undisturbed, but on looking at it through my glasses it seemed a cluster of tiny eggs, with one or two tiny spiderets in motion.”

“Mr. Merrywinkle, the spider, crawling through the corn, / Spotted Mistress June Bug on a summer morn / Oh, how he loved Ms. June Bug! […] And the couple settled, happily, within the spinach row, / To raise⟳ a thousand spiderets, each a handsome lad, / All proud as punch to call⟳ Mr. Merrywinkle, “Dad.””

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