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The yellow dog followed him to the fence and then ran back to see what he had dropped Nearly a dozen other dogs came from round all the corners and under the buildings--spidery, thievish, cold-blooded kangaroo-dogs, mongrel sheep- and cattle-dogs, vicious black and yellow dogs--that slip after you in the dark, nip your heels, and vanish without explaining--and yapping, yelping small fry.

—Joe Wilson and His Mates

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adjective Resembling a spider in form, characteristics, or behavior.
adjective Resembling a spider's web; very fine: spidery handwriting.
adjective Infested with spiders.

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He brushed a flickering red jewel on the belly of a spidery-looking thing made of wire and chrome; its claws flexed, extruding filaments of shining silver. — F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 01 - January 2000
Then it whirled and started downward in wild leaps The very haste of the descent led to disaster for the spidery figure. — 039 - The Seven Agate Devils
The spidery, glistening little organ gurgled as it maintained the metabolic level necessary to pilot the craft through the exotic terrain of metaspace. — F ;SF - vol 098 issue 04 - April 2000
A lack of any body hair made his green skin a natural canvas for the spidery tattoos that ran over his skull and down the back of his neck. — FSF,September2006
Thank you kindly Grunting audibly, like the spidery little librarian had back in Memphis, the sheriff returned to his office, but left the connecting door open so he could watch Brad Edward Bliss was one of those square-jawed, clean-cut, handsome types, with slicked-back straight black hair; the kind of man women were prone to swoon over. — EQMM,December2006