Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the common British garden-spider, or diadem-spider, Epeira diadema: so called from the colored cross on top of the abdomen.
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Or they look for long evenings at a crafty, lurking cross-spider, that preacheth prudence to the spiders themselves, and teacheth that "under crosses it is good for cobweb-spinning!"
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Or they look for long evenings at a crafty, lurking cross-spider, that preacheth prudence to the spiders themselves, and teacheth that "under crosses it is good for cobweb-spinning!"
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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