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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of, resembling, or forming a net or web.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Net-like.
  2. Spinning a web, as a spider; of or pertaining to the Retiariæ.
  3. Armed with a net; hence, skilful to entangle.
  4. n. Same as retiarius.
  5. n. A retiary spider; a member of the Retiariæ.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. net-like
  2. adj. Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; said of certain spiders.
  3. adj. Armed with a net; hence, skilful at entangling.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) Any spider which spins webs to catch its prey.
  2. n. A retiarius.
  3. adj. Netlike.
  4. adj. Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; -- said of certain spiders.
  5. adj. Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle.

Etymologies

  1. Compare Latin retiarius. (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin rēte, net. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. retiarius
  1. netlike

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