Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, resembling, or forming a net or web.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Net-like.
- Spinning a web, as a spider; of or pertaining to the Retiariæ.
- Armed with a net; hence, skilful to entangle.
- noun Same as
retiarius . - noun A retiary spider; a member of the Retiariæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any spider which spins webs to catch its prey.
- noun A retiarius.
- adjective Netlike.
- adjective Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; -- said of certain spiders.
- adjective Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
net -like - adjective Constructing or using a
web , ornet , to catchprey ; said of certainspiders . - adjective Armed with a net; hence,
skilful atentangling .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Latin rēte, net.]
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Compare Latin retiarius.
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Examples
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Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retiary versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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